... in postcolonial or global Anglophone world literature. Writing by Buchi Emecheta, Chinua Achebe, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie suggests how the appropriation of the language of British colonization has been undercut and abetted by the Anglophone cultural and educational institutions of US empire. Examining...

...S. Shankar This essay harnesses the use of translation as a critical method to explore affect in a comparative mode. By way of readings of ethnography (Margaret Trawick's Notes on Love in a Tamil Family ), film (the Hindi-language masala film Guide ), and fiction (Chinua Achebe's Nigerian novel...

...NEIL TEN KORTENAAR University of Oregon 2000 Achebe, Chinua. Anthills of the Savannah . London: Heinemann, 1988 . Ahmad, Aijaz. “Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the `National Allegory.'” Social Text 17 ( 1987 ): 3 -25. Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities . London...

.... Chief Nanga in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People (1966) and Ralph Singh in V. S. Naipaul’s The Mimic Men (1967) might fail to assert their authority over their respective communities in postcolonial West Africa and the Caribbean, but it is not for lack of trying. Elam’s revisioning...

... the capacious vision of African literature that Jackson sketches in her study. But there is no doubt that Jackson’s canvas is broad and revelatory, avoiding the expected heavyweights (Achebe, Coetzee, Adichie) while still surveying a full century’s worth of literature and philosophy, stretching from Casely...

...NICHOLAS HARRISON University of Oregon 2007 Achebe, Chinua, and C.L. Innes, eds. African Short Stories: Twenty Short Stories from Across the Continent . London: Heinemann, 1985 . Bernheimer, Charles. Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism . Baltimore: The Johns...

... with literature can be all too patent, as demonstrated by our mistaken attempts to insist that the novelistic interventions of people like Achebe and Rushdie should be primarily viewed through a “postcolonial” lens (not a mistake that the authors WHAT’S LITERATURE GOT TO DO...

... enough, as we can see when Ngũgĩ praises Achebe for his opposition to the life-and-death struggle logic in Things Fall Apart : “Okonkwo as it were refuses to enter into the process of the unfolding of the dialectic for he wants to remain a person with an independent consciousness, and he...

... ). In The House of Hunger , stuttering is no mere indication of personality but rather a comment on the social forces that render his voice ugly or uncivilized. In this regard, Marechera stands apart from other examples of metaphorical stuttering in African literature. For example, in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall...

...MUSTAPHA MARROUCHI University of Oregon 2002 Achebe, Chinua. Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays . London: Heinemann, 1989 . Alloula, Malek. “Algeria: Haram/Hallal, or, Room and Board.” Autodafe (Fall 2001 ): 139 . Al-Qur'ān . Trans. Ahmed Ali. Princeton: Princeton...

... in postcolonialism of colonial Eurocentrism. His careful contextualization of Conrad’s text permits, however, a re-engagement with Achebe’s famous rebuke of Conrad and underlines the risk that colonial discourse may homog- enize what in reality remains heterogeneous and profoundly uneven. At the same time...

... in postcolonialism of colonial Eurocentrism. His careful contextualization of Conrad’s text permits, however, a re-engagement with Achebe’s famous rebuke of Conrad and underlines the risk that colonial discourse may homog- enize what in reality remains heterogeneous and profoundly uneven. At the same time...

... in postcolonialism of colonial Eurocentrism. His careful contextualization of Conrad’s text permits, however, a re-engagement with Achebe’s famous rebuke of Conrad and underlines the risk that colonial discourse may homog- enize what in reality remains heterogeneous and profoundly uneven. At the same time...

... in postcolonialism of colonial Eurocentrism. His careful contextualization of Conrad’s text permits, however, a re-engagement with Achebe’s famous rebuke of Conrad and underlines the risk that colonial discourse may homog- enize what in reality remains heterogeneous and profoundly uneven. At the same time...

... readings of, a broadly com- parative group of authors including Salman Rushdie, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, V.S. Naipaul, David Dabydeen, W.E.B. DuBois, Frantz Fanon, Ng˜ug˜ı wa Thiong’o, Assia Djebar, Tsitsi Dangarembga, J.M. Coetzee, Severo Sarduy, and Amitav Ghosh. Although these readings enter...

... readings of, a broadly com- parative group of authors including Salman Rushdie, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, V.S. Naipaul, David Dabydeen, W.E.B. DuBois, Frantz Fanon, Ng˜ug˜ı wa Thiong’o, Assia Djebar, Tsitsi Dangarembga, J.M. Coetzee, Severo Sarduy, and Amitav Ghosh. Although these readings enter...

... of reanimating [the nation] . . . learning to see nations in more places and in more ways” (xvi). Worlds Within takes up this task through deep engagement with, and often brilliant close readings of, a broadly com- parative group of authors including Salman Rushdie, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, V.S...

... of reanimating [the nation] . . . learning to see nations in more places and in more ways” (xvi). Worlds Within takes up this task through deep engagement with, and often brilliant close readings of, a broadly com- parative group of authors including Salman Rushdie, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, V.S...

... and social history. See Denning. 26 For a commentary on world literature anthologies and the recent inclusion of García Márquez and Chinua Achebe in some of them as a result of the globalization of the canon of world litera- ture, see James English (306–07). COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 354 and Latin...

..., the individual and his fate (which brings in the Igbo concept of the chi, prominent in the work of Chinua Achebe), questions of gender, and metanarrative or the “performer in the tale.” Sample plots include the story of the angry man (a hunter) who would kill his wives if the food was not ready when he...