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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 86–111.
Published: 01 March 1969
...AUSTIN J. SHELTON Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 THE “PALM-OIL” OF LANGUAGE
PROVERBS IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S NOVELS
By AUSTINJ. SHELTON
In the foreword to W. H. Whiteley’s Selection of African Prose...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 309–328.
Published: 01 September 2012
.... For those like
Chinua Achebe and Ngugi wa Thiong’o who went to the university col-
leges set up in East and West Africa after World War II, modernism was
an essential part of a privileged colonial education. These writers may
have felt marginalized...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 289–308.
Published: 01 September 2012
... that of some novels
that were innovative and have proved important), reading protocols
changed signi cantly. Consider the very different reception histories
of Chinua Achebe’s realism, especially in his most in uential novel,
Things Fall Apart...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 187–205.
Published: 01 June 2023
... in a book than to extrapolate any “meaning” from it. References Achebe Chinua . 2001 . “ An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness .” In The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism , edited by Leitch Vincent B. , 1783 – 94 . New York : Norton . Auyoung...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (3): 411–437.
Published: 01 September 2014
... Fiction.” Her work has appeared in Essays in Criticism and the Conradian . © 2014 by University of Washington 2014 References Achebe Chinua . 1988 . Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays, 1965-1987 . London : Heinemann . “ Africa Abroad #81 .” 1964 . Transcription Centre...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (4): 425–452.
Published: 01 December 2001
...: post and propter. To take a simple instance:
when Edouard Glissant and Chinua Achebe criticize their compatri-
ots’ division of Martinican and Nigerian climates into spring, summer,
fall, and winter, they do so because the nomenclature is one way...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (3): 354–358.
Published: 01 September 2019
... the movement of peripheral authors into world-literary space, the second half addresses the divisions within the literary world as well as those of the social world during the 1960s and 1970s. The third chapter, for instance, considers how Okigbo, but also Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Clark, self-fashioned...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (4): 683–686.
Published: 01 December 2000
... Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) and Arrow
of God (1964), Paul Hazoumé’s Doguicimi (1938, read against various colonial ac-
counts of human sacrifice in Dahomey), Yambo Ouologuem’s Le Devoir de vio-
lence (1968, translated as Bound to Violence), and Ben Okri’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (4): 686–689.
Published: 01 December 2000
... Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) and Arrow
of God (1964), Paul Hazoumé’s Doguicimi (1938, read against various colonial ac-
counts of human sacrifice in Dahomey), Yambo Ouologuem’s Le Devoir de vio-
lence (1968, translated as Bound to Violence), and Ben Okri’s...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (4): 689–692.
Published: 01 December 2000
... Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) and Arrow
of God (1964), Paul Hazoumé’s Doguicimi (1938, read against various colonial ac-
counts of human sacrifice in Dahomey), Yambo Ouologuem’s Le Devoir de vio-
lence (1968, translated as Bound to Violence), and Ben Okri’s...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (4): 692–696.
Published: 01 December 2000
... Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) and Arrow
of God (1964), Paul Hazoumé’s Doguicimi (1938, read against various colonial ac-
counts of human sacrifice in Dahomey), Yambo Ouologuem’s Le Devoir de vio-
lence (1968, translated as Bound to Violence), and Ben Okri’s...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 141–148.
Published: 01 June 2021
.... A different kind of outreach has been international. Not until 1969 did MLQ publish an essay on an African or Asian author, Chinua Achebe, and the first essay on a writer in a non-European language (if my review of the contents didn’t miss anything) was Shaun Kelley Jahshan’s ( 1995 ) “Reader-Oriented...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 269–288.
Published: 01 September 2012
... discourse: those of Saa-
Performing a New France
dat Hasan Manto, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Nadine Gordi-
mer, Raja Rao, Maryse Condé, Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Tayeb Salih,
for example.
Our curricular and canon- making institutions have...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 141–149.
Published: 01 June 2013
...
on the teaching of world literature (Block 1960). In 1962 the British
publishing company Heinemann Educational Books launched the Afri
can Writers Series, starting with what has become a classic of world lit
erature, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1957). Indeed, the term new
world literature was used...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 333–368.
Published: 01 September 2015
.... In 1962 the legendary African Writers of English Expression conference took place at Kampala’s Makerere University. All the leading young anglophone African writers were there: Soyinka, Okigbo, Clark, Neogy, Chinua Achebe, Ezekiel (later Es’kia) Mphahlele, Bloke Modisane, Lewis Nkosi, and Ngũgĩ wa...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 441–464.
Published: 01 December 2020
... expanded chronologies that demarcate the works from earlier, canonical realist works such as Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart ( 1994 ), Sembène Ousmane’s Les bouts de bois de Dieu ( 1991 ), and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Grain of Wheat ( 2012 ), which were sharply focused on historical transitions. Thus we...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (4): 402–408.
Published: 01 December 1989
..., Patricia. Thomas Hardy. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press
International, Feminist Readings, 1990. xi + 124 pp. $29.95.
Ingram, Allan. The Language of D. H. Lawrence. New York: St. Martin’s Press,
Language of Literatu‘re, 1990. 171 pp. $35.00.
Innes, C. L. Chinua Achebe. Cambridge...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (2): 269–292.
Published: 01 June 2004
... Achebe, “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Dark-
ness,” in Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays (New York: Doubleday, 1989).
272 MLQ June 2004
Bay uprising would cause social and political repercussions in England
that prevented...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (1): 65–94.
Published: 01 March 2020
... small number of people who are competent to judge poetry at all” (quoted in Hurley 2018 : 141). Perhaps appreciating virtuosity is the kind of readership practice that Isobel Armstrong ( 2000 : 4) describes as the aestheticization of privilege, involving, as Chinua Achebe ( 1973 : 622) puts it, “much...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 475–485.
Published: 01 September 2012
... novels dealing with
Irish workmen in England have to do with and its African expres-
sions? Can we relate Achebe’s diatribes against modernism in any way
to the evolution of Taiwanese literature, let alone to the modernism of
Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior? And what is the awful Nai-
paul...
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