The AFRICAN TRAGEDY IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APART
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2017-06
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Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart marks a very important milestone in African
literature. It has received global critical acclaim. The novel dramatizes precolonial and
postcolonial Igbo life. Through Achebe’s narrative discourse, one can assume the distinction
between the two cultures, the culture of the colonizer and the culture of the colonized, as well
as the tragic events caused by the coming of the white man. Therefore, the aim of this research
is to study African tragedy in Things Fall Apart. It examines Achebe’s postcolonial counter
discourse to express the tragedy of a man and his people. Hence, the first chapter introduces
the sociohistorical context of the novel. It sheds light on the different social, historical, and
literary contexts that surrounded the writing of the novel. The second chapter involves the
narrative discourse and stylistic techniques employed by the writer. The third chapter employs
postcolonial literary criticism to approach the novel. Thus, we conclude that Things Fall Apart
is one of the major literary and cultural works in the African canon. It explores the destructive
aftermath of the advent of the white man, and the tragedy of the hero Okonkwo that implies
the tragedy of the whole Umofian society in particular and the plight of Africa and Africans in
general.
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he tragedy of the whole Umofian society in particular and the plight of Africa and Africans in general.