Chinua Achebe Writing Culture
Representations of Gender and Tradition in Things Fall Apart
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9250323 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kwadwo Osei-Nyame, Kwadwo Osei‐nyame (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 148-164 |
| Publication date | 1999-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in African Literatures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ral.1999.30.2.148 |
| OpenAlex | W2334979527 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
While Achebe's early novels have been popularly received for their representation of an early African nationalist tradition that repudiates imperialist and colonialist ideology, his counter-narratives have only been narrowly discussed for their theoretical speculation on cultural and ideological production as a mode of resistance within the nationalist tradition that the texts so evidently celebrate. My epigraph not only recognizes that the definition of "tradition" in Achebe's work hinges upon ideological conflict, it comments also on the varying forms of consciousness that arise within discourses of self-definition within Igbo traditional culture. Moreover, it communicates the idea of complex rather than simple relationships between individuals and groups in the world of Achebe's "fictional" Igbo communities
Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Epistemology · Ideology · Igbo · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2011 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |