Landmarks: African Novels of the Twentieth Century |
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... human excess and its consequences . Human excess upsets the delicate balance between order and anarchy . The reaction of the Drinkard's friends after the death of the tapster is human excess : " but when it was the third day that I had ...
... human excess and its consequences . Human excess upsets the delicate balance between order and anarchy . The reaction of the Drinkard's friends after the death of the tapster is human excess : " but when it was the third day that I had ...
Page 79
... human communication is being reduced to an elementary set of terms " ( 140 ) . These characters with their speeches often marked by the " familiar human cantankerousness " remind us that the events are fore- grounded in our world ...
... human communication is being reduced to an elementary set of terms " ( 140 ) . These characters with their speeches often marked by the " familiar human cantankerousness " remind us that the events are fore- grounded in our world ...
Page 134
... human character - it is commitment to craftsmanship ... another way of saying that a writer's commitment is to telling the truth - the form this truth - telling will take not only means being accurate , but will also mean expressing ...
... human character - it is commitment to craftsmanship ... another way of saying that a writer's commitment is to telling the truth - the form this truth - telling will take not only means being accurate , but will also mean expressing ...
Contents
Conflict and Character | 33 |
The Satirical Depiction of Colonialism | 51 |
The Journey of SelfDiscovery in Mongo Betis | 66 |
Copyright | |
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Achebe's African Child African Literature African novel Amadi's Amos Tutuola apartheid Arrow Arrow of God authority beggar Beti's betrayed boys Camara Laye Camara Laye's Cameroon characters Chief Priest Chinua Achebe Christ of Bomba Christian Clarence colonial administrator colour committed conflict culture Dead's Town dehumanization Denis depicted Ebla Efuru Engamba experience Ezeidemili Ezeulu feeling Ferdinand Oyono fight French Gikonyo Guma hero Houseboy human husband Idemili Igbo Ihuoma Iroh irony John Munonye journey Karanja Kelara Kihika kind King land language Laye Lewis Nkosi Longer at Ease Medal Meka Meka's Mission Mongo Beti mother Mumbi narrator Ngugi Nigeria Nkosi Nwaka Oduche Ojinmah Okonkwo Okperi Oyono Palm-Wine Drinkard Poor Christ pre-colonial past present quest race social society South Africa story symbolic tapster theme Things Fall traditional Tutuola Ulu's Umuaro Umuofia village white man's White Tree wife Winterbottom woman writers yams