Identity Crisis in Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah
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Date
2023-06
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university of M'sila
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The current study explores a remarkable issue in the field of postcolonial literature, namely, identity. As a first objective, the study seeks to examine the effects of colonial presence and domination on post-colonial societies, and how colonizers view colonialism. The study also aims to analyze Chinua Achebe’s novel Anthills of the Savannah, presenting how it truly reveals the identity plight of post-colonial Nigerians, and charting how the identity dilemma is constructed in post-colonial literature. The topic was chosen for two reasons: first, to investigate and explore concepts of identity, and how they relate to other concepts in the field of postcolonial literature. Second, the study will analyze how Achebe, as a postcolonial novelist, explores and articulates issues of identity in his work Anthills of the Savannah. Moreover, the study is conducted in the light of postcolonial theory. Moreover, the study is conducted in the light of postcolonial theory. The latter enables us to say that the collection is a reflection of Chinua Achebe's commitment to showing the crisis of identity in post-colonial Nigeria. This method is also applied to indicate the effect of colonialism on the identity of the colonized. The results of the study indicate that postcolonial societies have already been torn into two different worlds superimposed on each other, as well as postcolonial people who are trapped between the two worlds and unable to recognize the space to which they belong. However, despite this fact, the true pre-colonial identity is deeply rooted in the theme and the desire to recapture pre-colonial traditions and culture is also present.