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Shifting Emphasis: The Ideologies of Power and Catholic Culture in the works of Achebe, Adichie and Paton
Power is a tool of cultural relations in society as reflected in literature, a collective consciousness of shifting emphasis, especially so from the writer's perspective. The paper examines Achebe's Things Fall Apart, positioning how Okonkwo, representing the native African rejected the ca...
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Singularities : A Transdisciplinary Biannual Research Journal
2016
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| 在線閱讀: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/007088.pdf |
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| 245 | |a Shifting Emphasis: The Ideologies of Power and Catholic Culture in the works of Achebe, Adichie and Paton | ||
| 260 | |b Singularities : A Transdisciplinary Biannual Research Journal |c 2016 | ||
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| 520 | |a Power is a tool of cultural relations in society as reflected in literature, a collective consciousness of shifting emphasis, especially so from the writer's perspective. The paper examines Achebe's Things Fall Apart, positioning how Okonkwo, representing the native African rejected the catholic hegemony of the west, Adichie's Americanah where Ifemelu realizes the stark differences in the practice of Catholicism in her homeland and that in the west, and Alon Paton's Cry the Beloved Country where both the South African whites and blacks observe Catholicism, the traditional tribal structures being almost destroyed. The protagonists in both Adichie and Achebe are native black Igbos, probably so, they being black writers, the focus of narration always weighs to their side of history and culture; contrary view being almost impossible. On the other hand, in Alan Paton's Cry the Beloved Country, the blacks are picturized as a xenophobic race and the towering hero is a white,Arthur Jarvis who sacrificed his life for the sake of blacks along with his white father, James Jarvis who was able to sympathize with the black family of his son's murderer. Here, this white man becomes the very symbol of hope, the consensus between the black savagery and the white refinement. | ||
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