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- Title
Art, History, Religion and Literature: the iconoclasts in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.
- Authors
Orabueze, Florence O.
- Abstract
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is the first authentic novel to launch Modern African Literature into the prestigious domain of World Literatures. Its prestige lies not only in its being celebrated as a canonical text, which has been translated into several foreign languages all over the world, but it has also been read and re-read by different scholars, researchers, reviewers, writers and students, etc. from diverse fields of knowledge with different analytical models, and different conclusions had been reached on the novel. It is also a novel that stoutly rebuffed the etiolated imagery, the ominous silences, the cultural primitivism and cannibalistic nature, which Western writers and critics had ascribed unto Africa and Africans. The present study appropriates the concept of art history and religion with Gregory Berns’ theory of iconoclasm combined with the crucible of qualitative research methodology of library and internet resources to unfold the iconoclastic characters that inhabit the fictive environment of the novel. Besides, the literary language of the text that x-rays the iconoclastic characters is also examined.
- Publication
IKENGA: International Journal of Institute of African Studies, 2020, Vol 21, Issue 4, p33
- ISSN
2006-4241
- Publication type
Academic Journal