Alexander Adkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 6879476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Adkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Adkins |
| SIGNATURE | ADKINS A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Chinua Achebe’s Beautiful Soul”
This essay revisits Chinua Achebe’s exemplary satire of African disillusionment, No Longer at Ease (1960). Published the year of Nigeria’s official independence from Britain, the novel describes how Obi Okonkwo, a civil servant and colonial subject, tries but fails at the threshold of independence to navigate a Nigerian modernity overrun with cultures of bribery, nepotism, and tribalism. Torn between the moral and financial demands of his rural, …
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Chinua Achebe’s Beautiful Soul”
This essay revisits Chinua Achebe’s exemplary satire of African disillusionment, No Longer at Ease (1960). Published the year of Nigeria’s official independence from Britain, the novel describes how Obi Okonkwo, a civil servant and colonial subject, tries but fails at the threshold of independence to navigate a Nigerian modernity overrun with cultures of bribery, nepotism, and tribalism. Torn between the moral and financial demands of his rural, …
Art (1 work) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Cynicism (1 work) · Elite (1 work) · History (1 work) · History (1 work) · Independence (probability theory (1 work) · Language change (1 work) · Law (1 work)