Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe Writes Back to the Centre

dc.creator	Mamuna Ghani, Mohammad Ayub Jajja and Irshad Hussain
dc.date	2013-06-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:24:50Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:24:50Z
dc.identifier	1027-9776
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/88b41875d2c2443fb486993d39a1d21e
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/30008
dc.description	The postcolonial writings tend to challenge the simplified representations of the natives and their cultures in the colonialists discourses. These writings celebrate the native pre-colonial culture and society to assert that these communities were not without history, heritage or identity of their own, as claimed by the colonialists. The postcolonial writings reflect the pride of the writer and the community in their own culture and heritage. These narratives also describe the colonialists and their culture from a new perspective. The postcolonial writings also depict the resistance of the natives towards the colonialist ideologies and cultures. Chinua Achebe is an African postcolonial writer. His novel Things Fall Apart is one of the best postcolonial novels and has the status of an African classic piece of writing. It has all the major characteristics of a postcolonial discourse. The present study intended to investigate the portrayal of African culture and identity in this novel and Achebe's response towards the colonialist ideology and culture, in the light of Postcolonial theories. The study found that Achebe has presented the African culture from the native perspective and has shown that Igbo culture and people had their own distinct culture, history and civilisation. However, the study also showed that Achebe has also dwelt upon some of the negative features of the pre-colonial Igbo culture, suggesting that it needed to be reformed and changed. He himself has an ambivalent attitude towards the colonialist ideology and culture, reflecting the fact that he has internalised the colonialist ideology and culture.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Islamia University of Bahawalpur
dc.relation	http://www.iub.edu.pk/jer/Home.html
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1027-9776
dc.source	Journal of Educational Research, Vol 16, Iss 01, Pp 95-105 (2013)
dc.subject	Culture
dc.subject	Identity
dc.subject	Hybridity
dc.subject	Superiority
dc.subject	Resistance
dc.subject	Colonialist
dc.subject	Native
dc.subject	Ideology
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe Writes Back to the Centre
dc.type	article