Essays about: "Achebe"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 21 essays containing the word Achebe.

  1. 11. Language and Culture : A Study about the Relationship between Postcolonial Literature and Intercultural Competence in the EFL Classroom

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Svensson Filip; [2015]
    Keywords : Postcolonial literature; intercultural competence; the EFL Classroom;

    Abstract : Abstract The purpose of this study was to ascertain to what extent English teachers at the upper secondary level in Sweden use postcolonial literature in their teaching and in that case if it is used in order to teach intercultural competence. The reason for this was the claim that there is a strong connection between postcolonial literature and intercultural competence as well as between postcolonial literature and the curriculum for the upper secondary school, and specifically the English courses. READ MORE

  3. 12. How Achebe Included the African People in the Story of Imperialism : A Comparison of Things Fall Apart and Heart of Darkness

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Mia Christiansson Söllvander; [2014]
    Keywords : Achebe; Conrad; postcolonialism; Things Fall Apart; Heart of Darkness; Languages and Literatures;

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

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Lame Maatla Kenalemang; [2013]
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    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

  5. 14. Fragmented Imperial Spaces in E. M. Forster’s Howards End and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Tesfaye Woubshet Ayele; [2012]
    Keywords : Imperialism; modernity; space; symbolism; characterization;

    Abstract : Written in different time periods but set in the time of imperial expansion, E. M. Forster’s Howards End (1910) and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) offer a critical exploration of British imperialism and its aftermath. READ MORE

  6. 15. Why do Things Fall Apart? : A Psychological Analysis of Okonkwo's Personality and his Ultimate Demise in Chinua Achebe's Novel Things Fall Apart

    University essay from Akademin för utbildning och ekonomi

    Author : Justin Lee Cowlin; [2011]
    Keywords : Chinua Achebe; Things Fall Apart; Psychoanalytic Approach; Freud; Defense Mechanism;

    Abstract : There are very few works not associated with the Western canon to have received as much attention as Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart (Ogbaa 1). However, contrary to the many post-colonial interpretations of this novel, this essay employs a psychoanalytical literary approach to discuss the cause of the protagonist’s eventual demise, based on the premise that human behaviour is driven by an unconscious process. READ MORE