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novel,Her insights about the multiple narration and itsrelationship to sharing power and decentring administration andthe satiric veinpondering.that runs through the whole work are worthThe final point about the racial and historicalimportance of stories and story-telling is quite illuminating.She throws a lot of light on AchebeJs presentation of the roleand function of women in this novel and of the eschatological orapocalyptic elements contained in the novel particularly afterthe death of Ikem and Chris.In Journal of Black studies (JBS) (June 1990) there is anessay by Joe E.obi, under the title, "Acritical Reading of theDisillusionment Noveltt. The writer devotes quite a lot of spaceto discuss AchebeJs contribution to this type of fiction inAfrica.The fiction that came into vogue in the mid-sixties issignificantly known as the disillusionment novel. The novelistsof disillusion like Achbe and Soyinka,reflect the presentdisaffection of the people, the lack of clarity and politicalwill among politicians and in general, the existential angst andanger of the people and therefore they are very muchcircumscribed, and operate in a limited framework,In Fs~ects of Common Wealth Literature (Vol 1, 1990) we comeacross the essay by Mary Ebun Modupe Kolawole entitled "TheOmnipresent past and the quest for self-retrieval in AfricanNovelu. The author's thesis is to establish that among other
objectives, African novelists desire to reflect the past as wellas reflect on it in order to understand the present better.Writers like Achebe have been consistently focussing on the pastso that identifying the root of the present problems, a search forsolution may be initiated. There is a good analysis of Achebefslatest novel Anthills of the Savannah. The ultimate goal of allthis retrospection is not romanticism but a transformation of thepresent.In the autumn ,91 (Vol 37, Number 3) issue of Modern ~ictionStudies we find three fine studies on Chinua Achebe. RobinIkegami has offered a new interpretation of the role of storytelling as a political and social act, as a demonstration ofknowledge and an exercise of power. The author proceeds toinvestigate the novel Anthills of Savannah from this angle.There are several story-tellers each with his or her own wayof story-telling. Probably the most reliable and informed storytelleris Beatrice who eventually proposes a new role tostroy-telling, that of doing something. She believes in intiatingchanges at all levels. Her performance of the naming ceremony ofElewafs daughter too is symbolic of the convergence of the pastand the present and the emergence of women as a powerful segment.The focus of this novel is on the future. The second essay is byKofi Owinsu under the title, "The politics of Interpretation: TheNovels of Chinua Achebe", The main thesis of this essay is theimportance and inevitability of interpreting stories. The role
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Page 3 and 4: I express my deep sense of thankful
Page 5 and 6: Fr. A. LEO ANTONY TAGBRE, MADepartm
Page 7 and 8: and performance of these two wrikrs
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Page 13 and 14: of the predominance of social theme
Page 15 and 16: foreign scholars and students of En
Page 17 and 18: Iyengar's criticism is quite percep
Page 19 and 20: C.D. Narasimhaiah in his book, The
Page 21 and 22: faith in God and as a consequence h
Page 23 and 24: some refreshing and exhilarating in
Page 25 and 26: particularly to the Marxist protest
Page 27 and 28: post-independence era. He takes up
Page 29 and 30: propagandist work, given the theme
Page 31 and 32: people. In this way he has made it
Page 33 and 34: difficulty to non-West ~frican read
Page 35 and 36: Jonathan A Peters has in his book,
Page 37 and 38: the concept of commitment and its r
Page 39 and 40: commented on Acheber s style and fi
Page 41: - His article, "Drawing the Lines o
Page 46 and 47: of interpreters or critics is impor
Page 48 and 49: Both have stuck to the parameters o
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Page 52 and 53: A B S T R A C TChapter one, Introdu
Page 54 and 55: Achebe's protrayal of this historic
Page 56 and 57: Chapter Seven, ItLiberation from th
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Page 60 and 61: majority of the population in want
Page 62 and 63: maintained an intrinsic and almost
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Page 66 and 67: elations and specially in commercia
Page 68 and 69: The same writer concludes to a new
Page 70 and 71: of liberation. The oft-used 'libera
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Page 74 and 75: product.These 'objectifications' of
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Page 88 and 89: many years before Dr.K.R. ~rinivasa
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During the period between 1950 and
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of the human person and on the life
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-- At Ease (1960); Arrow of God (19
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Europeans came into the picture. Th
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and extolling the negritude or the
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.... Grounding literature on concre
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sought the raw material for his/her
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CHAPTER FOUR-----------------------
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acid test of their authenticity as
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who had religious sanction for thei
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The question he poses to himself in
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ehabilitate them as equal citizens
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not allowing him to enjoy the sunny
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This and numerous instances in the
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Anantafs association with Janki and
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transformation that takes place in
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Anand believes in the values of unr
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Achebe presents Qkonkwofs character
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displayed by the British of the nat
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The opening scene wherein Obi is co
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The ultimate victory is an affirmat
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It is Ikem who begins to articulate
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Shortly after his inspiring speech
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There are strong similarities and s
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to perform the task.His method is n
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Bhikhu, Gangu, Ananta and even Gaur
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CHAPTERFIVE----------TRAD I T ION V
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Novel is that bright book of life w
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narrow, myopic perception of life a
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Anand has a fine perception af the
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cast in the mould of a self-effacin
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ground reality.However it is the po
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ignorance, superstitious beliefs im
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command of his narrative never slac
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A certain fearlessness and scant re
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fashioning out his fictional narrat
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Obi is presented as an educated Nig
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village people's stout opposition t
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The point af view as expressed by C
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thematic end by laying greater stre
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story of the struggle between these
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industrialisation, Money became the
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Finally we see a hunted and hounded
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Gangu's destiny is inextricably wed
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means of production. This is what i
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on deaf ears- And his heroic death
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And Margaret Berry seems to agree w
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conviction bearing on the conflicts
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adaptability, he is unwillingly has
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in well-diguised or civilized 'inno
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Odili though an idealist has a desi
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AIL said and done, Achebe's investi
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From a reading of Achebe's Anthills
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Now we turn our attention to the ca
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and cleanliness of the high caste p
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vegetable curry and rice while they
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Bhikhu the protagonist is a road-wo
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complacency, he also attacks the la
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people, thanks to widespread availa
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It could be by extension applied to
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And his mother literally shattered
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2 09morale of the people. Struggles
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This has been the traditional attit
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It is very gratifying to note the e
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Anand has, in his novel taken a bol
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with his wife in her growth into se
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Anand has successfully resolved the
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acceptance and compassion, so very
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Achebe is quite critical of the inf
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ambitious- She holds a brief for Ik
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ealistic, the male and the female,
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Achebe, when compared with Anand, a
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national situation and cultural her
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injustice. They were poet-prophets
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This brings us to the current debat
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Propaganda is always to be with us.
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"does the writer regard his work as
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elief system embodied in a poem or
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According to some critics commitmen
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critics hostile to commitment, beca
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and to be their spokesperson. In th
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of a writer can transform the vario
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Anand explores aspects of the human
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social content or purpose in the te
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always abused?.... They always abus
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While Anand has skilfully and consc
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death is more than compensated in t
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absorbing life-like story filled wi
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out sirnply because he is indigent
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different characters and situations
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dialectical or mutually enriching a
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for all people.True to this definit
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ites and its own administrative set
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infallibility. But Achebe's story i
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The other oral form which Achebe in
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achievement destroyed through an in
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disintegrating trends were not alre
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It is the same area - the supportin
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ut well-meaning high priest, no dou
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other words, the European coloniser
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Chris, the commissioner for Informa
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and seek blessing in order to gain
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when she herself is transformed int
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critical moments new versions of ol
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~ecessarily, as it is obvious to us
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Achebe as a novelist could not admi
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Leaves and 2 Bud and the Biq Heart,
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The fact about water like time is t
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the story or theme he is treating i
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. . . . the peculiarity of art is t
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importance. The classical pitfall o
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orne in mind that Achebe has time a
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The term wliberation" posits man as
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ÿ nand for the underdogs. While An
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The novel of disillusionment came i
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pleasures of life. He likes to dres
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makes is Janki who becomes a symbol
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the principal character- Achebe has
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fact the novel assumes greater vigo
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unable to concretely translate his
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of tradition versus modernity in hi
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een sharpened and made more content
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factory management as a partner, tr
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Achebers analysis of the tragic con
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equation. The richer thathiars repr
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Achebe examines this question in An
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y certain laws of the art or genre
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~tuauy enriching and transforming.
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Achebe has time and again proclaime
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elationship between the leaders amo
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the fictional world of Anand. He ha
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If there is a specific area for fur
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narrative.As a result of this a blu
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B I B L I O G R A P H YPRIMARY SOUR
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SECONDARY SOURCESWRITINGS ON ACHEBE
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Coppola , Carlo. Marxist Influences
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Granquist, Raoul. "The Early Swedis
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Kolawole, Mary Ebun Modupe. The Omn
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---------- . "The theme of salvatio
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Omolasa, Leslie and Johnson M-John.
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Robertson, R. T. "Untouchable as an
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