Colonialism, Gender, Poverty, Exploitation, Domination, and Hegemony as Rendered in the Novels Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa.
- Journal of Radical Political Economics August 1971 vol. 3 no. 3 90-106, William Tab.
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- World Politics
- Volume 52, Number 4, July 2000
- Heller, Patrick.
Degrees of Democracy: Some Comparative Lessons from India
World Politics - Volume 52, Number 4, July 2000, pp. 484-519
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Chinua Achebe Writing Culture: Representations of Gender and Tradition in Things Fall Apart
Osei-Nyame, Godwin Kwadwo, 1967-
Research in African Literatures, Volume 30, Number 2, Summer 1999, pp. 148-164
Subject Headings:
Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart.
Culture in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article.
Wherever something stands, there something else will stand.
—Igbo saying
While Achebe's early novels have been popularly received for their representation of an early African nationalist tradition that repudiates imperialist and colonialist ideology, his counter-narratives have only been narrowly discussed for their theoretical speculation on cultural and ideological production as a mode of resistance within the nationalist tradition that the texts so evidently celebrate. My epigraph not only recognizes that the definition of "tradition" in Achebe's work hinges upon ideological conflict, it comments also on the varying forms of consciousness that arise within discourses of self-definition within Igbo traditional culture. Moreover, it communicates the idea of complex rather than simple relationships between individuals and groups in the world of Achebe's "fictional" Igbo communities.
This essay intends an appropriation of Bakhtin's notion of "heteroglossia" and dialogism in its exploration of some concerns relevant to the question of the representation of ideology in Things Fall Apart. Bakhtin's notion of dialogism views narrative discourses as forms of social exchange that locate "the very basis" of individual and social "behaviour" within conflicting worldviews and
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- World Politics
- Volume 52, Number 4, July 2000
- Heller, Patrick.
Degrees of Democracy: Some Comparative Lessons from India
World Politics - Volume 52, Number 4, July 2000, pp. 484-519
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Chinua Achebe Writing Culture: Representations of Gender and Tradition in Things Fall Apart
Osei-Nyame, Godwin Kwadwo, 1967-
Research in African Literatures, Volume 30, Number 2, Summer 1999, pp. 148-164
Subject Headings:
Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart.
Culture in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article.
Wherever something stands, there something else will stand.
—Igbo saying
While Achebe's early novels have been popularly received for their representation of an early African nationalist tradition that repudiates imperialist and colonialist ideology, his counter-narratives have only been narrowly discussed for their theoretical speculation on cultural and ideological production as a mode of resistance within the nationalist tradition that the texts so evidently celebrate. My epigraph not only recognizes that the definition of "tradition" in Achebe's work hinges upon ideological conflict, it comments also on the varying forms of consciousness that arise within discourses of self-definition within Igbo traditional culture. Moreover, it communicates the idea of complex rather than simple relationships between individuals and groups in the world of Achebe's "fictional" Igbo communities.
This essay intends an appropriation of Bakhtin's notion of "heteroglossia" and dialogism in its exploration of some concerns relevant to the question of the representation of ideology in Things Fall Apart. Bakhtin's notion of dialogism views narrative discourses as forms of social exchange that locate "the very basis" of individual and social "behaviour" within conflicting worldviews and