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How can magical realism be used as a counternarrative to the history of colonization? Contrary to the single story of Africa as a “black” [...]
April 25, 2012
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A professor once shared this video with me and I thought it was worth sharing, especially as a lens to view Adichie’s priorities for [...]
February 9, 2012
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Writing Death and King’s Horseman as a play was a creative way to enable a conversation between colonialist forces and Nigerian natives. [...]
February 2, 2012
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A connection that I found between Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Achebe’s Things Fall Apart was the relationship between [...]
February 2, 2012
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Nso ani. This is the Igbo word for a sin so grave that it is considered to be against the earth itself. Suicide is one of these taboos, even [...]
January 31, 2012
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During our class discussion Monday on the end of “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe, we poked at the idea of whether colonized populations [...]
January 30, 2012
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In the first 13 chapters of “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe, we learn a fair amount about the everyday practices of the Ibo. We don’t [...]
January 26, 2012
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Two things that I’ve noticed a particular prominence of during interactions between characters throughout Things Fall Apart are palm wine and [...]
January 26, 2012
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Griswold notes from the opening of her essay that “writing fiction is the contemporary analog to telling stories in the moonlit village,” and [...]
January 26, 2012
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Overall, I really love Things Fall Apart thus far. Not having ever read specifically Nigerian literature, I find the ways of Umuofia’s village [...]
January 26, 2012
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