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This chapter examines the contributions of Chinua Achebe to the development of Igbo Studies in particular, and African Studies in general. 1 Conceived in the colonial context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when very little was preserved in writing by the Africans on Igbo social life and customs, Achebe’s trilogy—Things Fall Apart (1958), No Longer at Ease (1960) and ...
- Raphael Njoku
- 2013
In this essay, I analyze Achebe's singular book of short stories Girls at War and Other Stories (1972) to argue that all of his narrative experimentation in his short fiction can best be appreciated in the context of a debt to the oral tradition. Oral tradition in this essay refers to the body of tales told both in the home by the fireside and ...
Jul 17, 2020 · Here’s how Chinua Achebe puts it in Things Fall Apart: “Among the Igbo, the art of conversation is regarded very highly and proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten.” So the importance on storytelling asides, added regard is given to polish: for how beautifully one can turn phrases, invent metaphors and spin a jolly good yarn in the most captivating manner.
Oct 31, 2019 · In fact, Achebe's major contribution to the literature of the twentieth century was perhaps his recognition that modernism (see Bridge Essay: The Moral Limits of Archive: Modern Narrative in World Literature) and realism were not mutually exclusive. This claim can best be illustrated by exploring what appears to be Achebe's belated adoption of the modernist idiom.
- Simon Gikandi
- 2019
Jun 4, 2017 · Not only does Achebe’s narrator invoke much the same phrase early in Things Fall Apart—“Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly” (7)—that is placed in Obi’s thoughts in its sequel, but also the entire Things Fall Apart passage that includes the phrase, like most of the book, shares the spirit of Obi’s celebratory response to hearing the language of his ...
- Thomas Jay Lynn
- 2017
The locus of his presentation, the priest/artist tradition, will be used here to show how Igbo traditional religion, politics, philosophy, and art were combined to give meaning to the abstract notion of duality, a concept central to most of Achebe's work and most deliberately explored in Arrow of God. Community Sanction.
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Chinua Achebe is one of the most well-known contemporary writers from Africa. His first novel, Things Fall Apart, deals with the clash of cultures and the violent transitions in life and values brought about by the onset of British colonialism in Nigeria at the end of the nineteenth century. Published in 1958, just before Nigerian independence ...
