Sökning: "Igbo culture"

Hittade 4 uppsatser innehållade orden Igbo culture.

  1. 1. 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

  3. 2. Kambili’s Journey to Dignity, and Self-empowerment : A Womanist Approach to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

    Magister-uppsats, Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Författare :Nicky Nahida Lindecrantz; [2022]
    Nyckelord :change; Christianity; dignity; identity; Igbo tradition; interaction; liberal- and radical feminism; mimicry; Nigeria; patriarchal violence; postcolonialism; self-empowerment; womanism;

    Sammanfattning : Using womanist theory as a theoretical framework, this study has analyzed identity formation and self-empowerment. Adichie is considered a feminist writer, but her ideals and ideas are very different from Western ideals and aim to survive and challenge patriarchal culture. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Things Fall Apart: An Analysis of Pre and Post-Colonial Igbo Society

    Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten

    Författare :Lame Maatla Kenalemang; [2013]
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    Sammanfattning : Chinua Achebe (1930- 2013) published his first novel Things Fall Apart (TFA) in 1958. Achebe wrote TFA in response to European novels that depicted Africans as savages who needed to be enlightened by the Europeans. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Kulturell identitet i En halv gul sol och Atlantens mage : En postkolonial läsning av två icke-västerländska romaner

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Lärarutbildningen

    Författare :Simon Oxblod; [2013]
    Nyckelord :Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Half a Yellow Sun; Fatou Diome; The Belly of the Atlan- tic; cultural identity; Stuart Hall; Frantz Fanon; postcolonialism; hybridity; Swedish; upper secondary school; non-western literature; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; En halv gul sol; Fatou Diome; Atlantens mage; kulturell identitet; Stuart Hall; Frantz Fanon; postkolonialism; hybriditet; svenska; gymnasiet; icke-västerländsk litteratur;

    Sammanfattning : This study analyses two non-western novels used in the subject of Swedish in upper secondary school: Fatou Diomes The Belly of the Atlantic and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies Half a Yellow Sun. Looking at how the books female main character relate to Stuart Halls theory of cultural identity, I come to the conclusion that they somewhat differently relate to an essential ”authentic” self. LÄS MER