Achebe the Orator: The Art of Persuasion in Chinua Achebe's NovelsBloomsbury Academic, 30/03/2001 - 192 páginas Taken together, Chinua Achebe's five novels--Things Fall Apart (1958), No Longer at Ease (1960), A Man of the People (1966), Arrow of God (1967), and Anthills of the Savannah (1988)--encompass the entire social, historical, and political experiences of Nigeria, from precolonial times to the close of the 20th century. Central to these experiences is the clash of Igbo culture with the ways of the West. The novels show a society that has been fragmented and a people who are striving to reconstruct a world that they lost during their encounter with colonialism. Achebe has stated that his main purpose for writing is to reveal the truth about his people and their culture. This book examines his use of rhetoric to accomplish that objective. |
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... Nwaka carries the day . Nwaka's entrance and his communication are apt . He roars like a lion and does not just salute his audience . After his dramatic opening , he speaks " softly in the silence he has created with his salutation ...
... Nwaka's argument shows that he is in tune with the pulse of his warrior town . By this argument , Nwaka makes a collective appeal against the things the new invader , the white man , has done to the old order of things . By assigning ...
... Nwaka proceeds to destroy Ezeulu's speech . First , he concedes a little to Ezeulu . Ezeulu's speech is " good words , " and he thanks Ezeulu for them . He asks for the approval of Umuaro for this observation and gets it when someone ...
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Things Fall Apart | 13 |
Arrow of God | 45 |
A Man of the People | 99 |
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Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Routledge Study Guide David Whittaker,Mpalive-Hangson Msiska Pré-visualização indisponível - 2007 |
Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse in the Novels of Yŏm Sang-sŏp, Chinua ... Sun-sik Kim Visualização de excertos - 2004 |