Gender and the Narrative of Identity in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God
This essay contests the view that Chinua Achebe’s writing is inherently ‘sexist’. Despite dominant patriarchal impulses within Igbo society, a closer attention to narrative strategy in Arrow of God demonstrates that women also contribute in significant ways to the Igbo nationalist tradition and to t...
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| 出版年: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| フォーマット: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 言語: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| オンライン･アクセス: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 要約: | This essay contests the view that Chinua Achebe’s writing is inherently ‘sexist’. Despite dominant patriarchal impulses within Igbo society, a closer attention to narrative strategy in Arrow of God demonstrates that women also contribute in significant ways to the Igbo nationalist tradition and to the mobilisation against colonialist ideology. |
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