Role of Colonial Subjects in Making Themselves Inferior in Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"

Autor/in	Sadeghi, Zahra
Titel	Role of Colonial Subjects in Making Themselves Inferior in Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"
Quelle	In: Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 5 (2014) 6, S.48-54 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2203-4714
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; African Culture; Sociolinguistics; Foreign Policy; Social Change; Culture Conflict; Christianity; Political Influences; Traditionalism; Social Values; Literary Devices; Literary Styles; Literature Appreciation; Novels; Didacticism; Community Relations; Social Experience; Identification (Psychology); Nigeria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Africa; Culture; Afrika; Kultur; Soziolinguistik; Außenpolitik; Sozialer Wandel; Kulturkonflikt; Christentum; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Traditionalismus; Sozialer Wert; Literaturarbeit; Literarischer Stil; Literarische Wertung; Novel; Roman; Didaktisierung; Soziale Erfahrung
Abstract	Chinua Achebe in his novel "Things Fall Apart" gives us a unique picture of life in Africa before the arrival of Christianity and colonization and the era afterwards. He shows how African people lost their traditional culture and values, replacing them with foreign beliefs. In this article, the way black people lived before the arrival of white people, how they encountered and reacted to white colonizers, in addition to how they converted to Christianity and subsequently to White culture, as portrayed in this novel, will be analyzed. The purpose of this study is to trace the roots of this rapid pace of colonialism back to when colonial subjects lost their original culture to the new-coming people and to what extent those colonized people were affectively actualizing their inferiority and subordination to the white society. Frantz Fanon's theories on the relation between language and culture or language and civilization, as well as his discussion of White notion of Blacks and Blacks' conception of themselves are discussed and analyzed in Achebe's masterpiece "Things Fall Apart" to prove that black people attempted to make up for their deep feeling of incompleteness by imitating white people and forming a white personality in a black statue as a result of their own conscious volition. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01