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Post-colonialism and political discourse in Chinua Achebe's tetralogy /Bamshad Hekmatshoar, Ali Salami.

By:

Hekmatshoar, Bamshad [Author]

Contributor(s):

Salami, Ali []

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PR9387 .P678 2019

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Contents:

Arrow of God or Another Things Fall Apart -- An Arrow to Shatter Ease, Obi Okonkwo's World Falls Apart -- A Man of the People, The Postcolonial Nigerian Context and a New Tragic 'Otherness'.

Subject: "This book studies four novels by Chinua Achebe-Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, and A Man of People-so as to investigate how he has constructed his alternative discourse, a discourse which has been successful in providing a room where the colonized are given voices to speak and the reader has a chance to understand better their world and what they have confronted because of colonization. Since each novel focuses on a different colonial or postcolonial phase in Nigeria and Achebe has made use of different discursive strategies in each of them, it can be claimed that taking them as a tetralogy and studying them together can result in providing a vivid picture of Achebe's discourse and what his novels seek to mirror about the Nigerian hybrid identity and the colonized man's struggles in the way of dealing with 'otherness' and difference"--

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	PR9387.9.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1120789745

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Chinua Achebe and Things Fall Apart -- Arrow of God or Another Things Fall Apart -- An Arrow to Shatter Ease, Obi Okonkwo's World Falls Apart -- A Man of the People, The Postcolonial Nigerian Context and a New Tragic 'Otherness'.

"This book studies four novels by Chinua Achebe-Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, and A Man of People-so as to investigate how he has constructed his alternative discourse, a discourse which has been successful in providing a room where the colonized are given voices to speak and the reader has a chance to understand better their world and what they have confronted because of colonization. Since each novel focuses on a different colonial or postcolonial phase in Nigeria and Achebe has made use of different discursive strategies in each of them, it can be claimed that taking them as a tetralogy and studying them together can result in providing a vivid picture of Achebe's discourse and what his novels seek to mirror about the Nigerian hybrid identity and the colonized man's struggles in the way of dealing with 'otherness' and difference"--

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