Sökning: "Achebe"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 22 uppsatser innehållade ordet Achebe.

  1. 1. Cultural Clash and Gender Roles : Exploring the Quest for Equality in Jane Eyre and Things Fall Apart

    Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Författare :Anne M Johansson; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Gender; cultural clash; equality; religion; colonialism; Genus; kulturkrock; jämställdhet; religion; kolonialism;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this essay is to analyze the intersectionality between themes of cultural clash and gender roles within the novels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, accentuating their common quest for equality. This essay offers a historical and cultural analysis, divulging the gender norms prevalent in Victorian England and pre-colonial Nigeria, serving as a backstage to the characters’ adaptations and struggles. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Cultural Clash and Colonial Consequences: A Comprehensive Analysis of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Foosey Abdulgadir; [2023]
    Nyckelord :European missionaries; Christianity; Postcolonialism; Igbo culture; Cultural clash; Christian missionaries; ancestral spirits; British colonialists;

    Sammanfattning : This paper explores Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart (1958) within the context of postcolonial theory, focusing on the clash between traditional Igbo culture and the forces of European imperialism. Achebe's work serves as a response to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) and challenges the stereotypical portrayal of Africans. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Hybridization of the Self, Colonial Discourse and the Deconstruction of Value Systems : A Postcolonial Literary Theory Perspective of Literature inculpating Colonialism

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Brian Burns; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Postcolonialism; Postcolonial Literary Theory; Hybridization; Walker; Malouf; Phillips; Achebe; Freud; Nietzsche; Bhabha; Siad; McLeod; Barry;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this essay is to provide a perspective on literature inculpating colonialism using postcolonial literary theory and method. The subject material incorporates four novels studied during the literature modules for the English course at Högskolan Gävle (HIG). LÄS MER

  5. 4. Eastern Nigeria at the Crossroads of Culture : Cultural Hybridity in Achebe's Things Fall Apart

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Micheline Grönlund; [2020]
    Nyckelord :cultural hybridity; pre-colonialism; colonialism; post-colonialism; essentializing; alternating; converting; hybridizing;

    Sammanfattning : This paper analyzes the four initial stages in the process of cultural hybridization as put forward by Chan Kwok-bun in his book Cultural Hybridity: essentializing, alternating, converting and hybridizing. These stages are examined in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart through a mapping to show how a cultural hybrid is formed. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Kolanötter och Coca-Cola : Mat som skildring av kolonialism och identitet i Chinua Achebes verk

    Magister-uppsats, Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Författare :Oliver Reuter; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Chinua Achebe; Igbo; Mat; Postkolonialism;

    Sammanfattning : Syftet med uppsatsen var att studera hur motivet mat används i samtliga fem romaner av den nigerianska författaren Chinua Achebe för att visa på det koloniala/postkoloniala tillståndet. Samtliga fem romaner av Achebe har studerats för denna uppsats. LÄS MER