Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Introduction

At a time when tolerance and mutual understanding between countries and continents imposed almost a moral obligation, one must admit the great ignorance of the reader general one has to English language literature in African neighbors. Few are the works that come from that land and coming under imprints do spin included in collections limited or too specific. Therefore, the author wants to dedicate this section to a paradigmatic book history of African literature. The author refers to "Things Fall Apart, "the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe does not risk too much to do because it is certainly a gamble safer. Let us enter it in the rich customs of the Ibo taken in hand by a native expert while great writer Chinua Achebe (Booker, 2011).

Discussion

The "Nigerian Renaissance"

The novel "Things fall apart” was published in 1958 as first novel a writer until then unknown. The appearance of this work is done in a period known as "Renaissance Niger, “a time when many writers of this nationality is thrown into a new and powerful literature that emerged from the mutual influence among oral tradition. African and European literary heritage based on the turbulent political landscape. Writers as diverse as Ben Okri and Wole Soyinka have emerged in the context of ideas and energy this movement, being one of Achebe the earliest and best novelists result of this new Nigeria. In fact, is cited as one of the writers largest English language, which gives us an idea of his stature as letters.

In 1958, much of African continues under colonial rule, although some countries like Ghana have achieved independence. Located in a time of profound change in Africa, Achebe's novel tells two of the characteristics of life Africa today: the humiliation imposed on Africans by the action colonizing and corruption and inefficiency system which have replaced the political apparatus and bureaucratic colonizer. Specifically, this novel focuses on the experience of colonization as it happened Nigeria in the early years of nineteenth century (Achebe & Adichie, 2010). 

Achebe is interested in show the Ibo people (one of the three major ethnic groups of Nigeria) in the transition period that the deep traditions begin to conflict with the British cultural and political machinery. The Nigerian writer showed great detail the life of the natives before and after the arrival of man white and resists the temptation to idealize their own culture, performing. Thus, this showed a passionate portrait, but an aseptic shock cultural unknown until then in Nigeria. In his own words ... "I would be very satisfied if my novels (Especially those that I place in the past) simply teach my African readers that their past, with all its imperfections, was not only a long night of savagery from which the Europeans, acting on behalf of God, saved " Achebe therefore not only about inform the outside world on traditions cultural and rites ancient, but its main goal is to change their minds so many Africans in their time were willing to accept the European ...