Censuring the Praise of Alienation: Interstices of Ante-Alienation in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, No Longer At Ease, and Arrow of God
Interrogating Abiola Irele’s praise of alienation, this essay examines the equally dangerous externalization in Chinua Achebe’s African trilogy: social alienation preceding colonial alienation, which challenges Négritude’s paradisiacal view of Africans always being happiest within their traditional...
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| Julkaisussa: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Aineistotyyppi: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Kieli: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Linkit: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Yhteenveto: | Interrogating Abiola Irele’s praise of alienation, this essay examines the equally dangerous externalization in Chinua Achebe’s African trilogy: social alienation preceding colonial alienation, which challenges Négritude’s paradisiacal view of Africans always being happiest within their traditional culture. |
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