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Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart'Anglophone African Author Perspectives on Using English

Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart': Anglophone African Author Perspectives... [Two prominent African authors, Chinua Achebe of Nigeria and Ngũgı̃ wa Thiong’o of Kenya, have taken different sides in the English language debate; their respective positions reflect the struggle many postcolonial writers face—English as the pragmatic linguistic choice or as the imperialistic linguistic code of the oppressor. Achebe and Ngũgı̃ illustrate how the decision to write in English, and therefore the dichotomy between pragmatism and imperialism, is fraught with difficulty, yet despite its cruel colonial past, English has been necessary to these authors’ success and ability to reach a worldwide audience.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart'Anglophone African Author Perspectives on Using English

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series
Editors: Baloubi, Désiré; Pinkston, Christina R.
Wilber, Elizabeth
Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart' — Dec 10, 2020
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-50796-1
Pages
65 –76
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-50797-8_5
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Abstract

[Two prominent African authors, Chinua Achebe of Nigeria and Ngũgı̃ wa Thiong’o of Kenya, have taken different sides in the English language debate; their respective positions reflect the struggle many postcolonial writers face—English as the pragmatic linguistic choice or as the imperialistic linguistic code of the oppressor. Achebe and Ngũgı̃ illustrate how the decision to write in English, and therefore the dichotomy between pragmatism and imperialism, is fraught with difficulty, yet despite its cruel colonial past, English has been necessary to these authors’ success and ability to reach a worldwide audience.]

Published: Dec 10, 2020

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