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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 123–138.
Published: 01 June 2019
... 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. Copyright ©...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 54–73.
Published: 01 March 2017
...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...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 201–219.
Published: 01 June 2024
... the realm of the village and the realm of the bush. The third part of the article rehistoricizes Tutuola’s early works on this basis, showing how his primitivism relates both to the work of Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, as well as to global thinking about spaces of primitivity in the 1950s in midcentury...
FIGURES
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (3): 228–245.
Published: 01 June 2000
...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...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 260–267.
Published: 01 June 2024
... mask in motion in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God : The Mask arrived appropriately on the crest of the excitement. The crowd scattered in real or half-real terror. It approached a few steps at a time, each one accompanied by the sound of bells and rattles on its waist and ankles. Its body was covered...
FIGURES
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 125–134.
Published: 01 June 2024
... to call for dialectical and dialogical readings of primitivism. Gikandi reads Chinua Achebe’s Arrows of God as a riposte to the decontextualization and immobilization of African masks in European museums; by showing a “mask in motion,” Achebe’s text illuminates the “deep, primal forces and the presence...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 502–505.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... 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...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 March 2023
... 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...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (4): 332–348.
Published: 01 September 2007
...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...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (3): 256–267.
Published: 01 June 2002
...
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...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 52–72.
Published: 01 March 2023
... ). 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...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 86–107.
Published: 01 March 2019
... 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...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (4): 325–356.
Published: 01 September 2002
...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...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 256–259.
Published: 01 June 2006
... 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...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 259–261.
Published: 01 June 2006
... 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...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 261–263.
Published: 01 June 2006
... 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...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 263–265.
Published: 01 June 2006
... 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...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 20–43.
Published: 01 March 2024
... studies, via Gauri Viswanathan; that elaborates English as a “literary and cultural system” ( Mufti ) and not just a language or literature; that asks, after Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao (and, equally, Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o), what can be said about India in English and whether English has...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 110–112.
Published: 01 March 2012
..., 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 into dialogue with a wide variety of critical perspectives, the book...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 112–115.
Published: 01 March 2012
... [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.
Naipaul, David...
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