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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 330–352.
Published: 01 March 2017
... deploys the idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah (1987) in contrast to the exploration of polygamy in Nigerian-American dramatist Tess Onwueme’s early play The Reign of Wazobia (1988) , written a year after Chinua Achebe’s novel. As a third generation African writer, and one whose...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 307–329.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Anene Ejikeme Abstract This essay argues that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short story “Headstrong Historian” offers a woman’s perspective on the Igbo encounter with European colonialism, a history made famous by Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart who told the story from a male perspective...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): v–vi.
Published: 01 March 2017
... given iconic status by Chinua Achebe's classic novel. Indeed, as Kanika Batra argues in "Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme's TheReignofWazobia," Nigerian authors have often engaged in the intersections of post- and neocolonialism, masculinism, and politics...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 54–77.
Published: 01 March 2006
... as an equal complement to the masculine roles expected of the menfolk. In other words, what we see in the precolonial ordering of social affairs among these national groups is not a hierarchical division of social responsibilities in favor of men. In Chinua Achebe's classic novel ThingsFallApart([1958] 1994...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 41–66.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., and capable of fathering twins, it does not make sense to remove Ona from normal society. In Chinua Achebe's ThingsFall Apart,Achebe describes Chielo, the priestess of Agbala, in these words, "In ordinary life Chielo was a widow with two children. She was very friendly with Ekwefi and they shared a common...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 92–116.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., from the dead, and merely represented" (Nesbitt 2003, 207). 7. The same activity of sharing food is presented as an essential function of a community by a village elder in Chinua Achebe's ThingsFallApart.The loss of a similar practice would lead to the disintegration of community. "Aman who calls his...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 90–126.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., though Roohdaar’s testimony from his prison days (as shown in the film) offers a much darker truth. Works Cited Abu-Lughod Lila . 2013 . Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Achebe Chinua . 1965 . “ English and the African Writer...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 195–208.
Published: 01 March 2006
... toward the end ofChinua Achebe's AnthillsoftheSavannah.As noted by John McLeod in BeginningPostcolonialism: Borrowing some terms from Homi Bhabha, we could describe the naming ceremony as a moment when the performative interrupts the pedagogical. The baby-naming ceremony has solemn and fixed protocols...
