character of Okonkwo. He holds an esteemed position within Umuofia, the village in which he and his family live. He grew up under an irresponsible father and strove to surpass his father’s reputation. Okonkwo is extremely hard with his family, especially his eldest son Nwoye, and holds them to almost impossible standards. The story progresses with the introduction of white missionaries and circumstances that force the family to leave Umuofia for seven years. The novel ends with Okonkwo killing a messenger
INTRODUCTION Things Fall Apart is a historical novel it set in Africa during the era of colonialism. In this novel, Achebe has developed the Theme of “traditional verses change” and offered a powerful presentation of beauty, strength, and validity of traditional life and values and the disruptiveness of change. Even so, the author does not appeal for a return to the ways of the part. While deploring the imperialist’s brutality and condescension, Achebe seems to suggest that change is inevitable and
its distinct culture. Nevertheless, Achebe achieves this motive at the peril of gender equality as he buried his narrative in a heap of male patriarchy. Accordingly, this paper seeks to analyze Things Fall Apart through a feminist and post-colonial literary lens to pinpoint how an effort to undermine ideologies of white supremacy, imperialism, and Eurocentric hegemony cunningly reinforce sexism and male patriarchy. Things Fall Apart is a novel
The social institution of marriage and the culture of paying bride price are interlinked and form an important part in the lives of African men and women. Like other communities, the African society has its own series of events that takes place before and after marriage such as the hunting of bride by going to the prospective bride’s hut before marriage and the inheritance of a widow and her family by the brother-in-law after the death of the husband. The traditional society of Africa strictly follows
a small fictional village called ‘Umuofia’, this novel, Things Fall Apart, tells the tragic story of a great village that was once united through the life and times of the protagonist, Okonkwo, one of the greatest warriors in his time. However, this novel not only tells the story of the tragic protagonist, Okonkwo, it also tells the story of some other minor characters who help and contribute to Okonkwo’s growth throughout the novel. After studying this novel critically and doing much research, I
colonialism and racism. This point has been a matter of debate among writers and critics for a long time. The novella sitting is in Africa where people colonized by the European dominant powers of the time attributed to from some African writers sharp criticism against Conrad. C.Achebe accused Joseph Conrad of being "a thoroughgoing racist" for depicting Africa as "the other world”, while other critics like E.Said defended him against this accusation.This debate led us to analyze the novella text and these
Chinua Achebe, a world-renowned Nigerian novelist, poet and professor, was born in 1930 and died in 2013. Hailing from southern Nigeria, Achebe wrote one of his most popular novels, Things Fall Apart, in 1958 focusing on the Ibo tribe; their traditions, rituals and ill-fated colonisation by the Christian British. With this novel, Achebe proves that "their societies were not mindless but frequently had a philosophy of great depth and value and beauty, that they had poetry and, above all, they had
The Emergence of written literature across Africa came with the colonial intervention. The literary genres vigorously copied from the existing genres of Europe, Portuguese, French and English became the official languages across the continent. African writings in English had dominated and defined much of the space of what is today regarded as African literature. Among the prominent African writers the contribution of Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiongo, Wole Soyinka, Christopher Okigbo, Senghor are noteworthy
Project id 716563 Studies in Post colonialism Edited by Lilack Biswas Assistant Professor Dinabandhu Mahavidyalaya Bongaon North 24 Parganas West Bengal India Dedicated to the Lotus Feet of Mahatma Shri Narayan Goswami for being the Friend Philosopher and Guide and showering his limitless bliss on such an inferior soul like me. I express my cordial thanks to Professor Dr. Jayanta Mete for his continuous inspiration and encouragement Chapter 1 Salman
HYBRIDITY AND MULTICULTURALISM: A CLOSE READING OF ZADIE SMIT’S WHITE TEETH Dissertation submitted to Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Masters of Arts in English Literature. Christina M Register no: 130011004436 Master of Arts English Literature. The Department Of English St. Albert’s College Ernakulam 2013-2015 CERTIFICATE This is to certify that dissertation titled, Hybridity and Multiculturalism: