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Chinua Achebe writing culture: representations of gender and tradition in `Things Fall Apart'.
- Source :
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Research in African Literatures . Summer99, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p148. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 1999
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Abstract
- Examines Chinua Achebe's novel `Things Fall Apart,' based on Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of `heteroglossia' and diagolism. Achebe's novelistic agenda in drawing upon the Igbo oral traditions; Reasons for the appropriation by Achebe of ethnographic modes of representation; Demonstration of the feasibility of a selective appeal to `tradition' within the Igbo worldview.
- Subjects :
- *IGBO folk literature
*ORAL tradition in literature
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00345210
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Research in African Literatures
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 1955956
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2979/RAL.1999.30.2.148