CENSURING THE PRAISE OF ALIENATION: Interstices of Ante-Alienation in Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God

Alienation has long been a preoccupation of modern African novels and of critical responses to them, which is as one might expect given the writers of these novels are for the most part those who in one way or another were alienated from their native tongues and cultures through their schooling in the colonizer's language and culture, at home and/or abroad. Frank examines alienation primarily in Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God. It focuses on externalization following colonial incursions or international travel by the colonized, which engenders ambivalence and psychological trauma stemming from negative feelings about the native culture, or the perceived lack thereof, relative to the colonizer's culture. The ante-alienation in these texts challengesNegritude's paradisiacal view of Africa and raises questions about Africans always being happiest or most at ease with themselves within their traditional culture.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Frank, Kevin

Đề mục:

African culture

Nhà xuất bản:

Johns Hopkins University Press

Ngày xuất bản:

Winter 2011

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Nguồn gốc:

Callaloo; Baltimore, Volume 34, Issue 4, Fall 2011, Pages 1088-1101,1116.

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CENSURING THE PRAISE OF ALIENATION: Interstices of Ante-Alienation in Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God

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