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Download full textAlli, Oyedokun; Ademola, Wasiu – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
This paper undertakes, through the prism of linguistic (stylistic) analysis, a reading of the ideological discourse in Festus Iyayi's novels- "Violence, The Contract", and "Heroes", with the broad aim of establishing the nexus between literature and ideology, through the instrumentation of language, for societal transformation.…
Descriptors: Language Styles, Discourse Analysis, Correlation, Novels
Zarrinjooee, Bahman; Khatar, Shahla – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This paper deals with Chinua Achebe's (1930-2013) "No Longer at Ease" (1960) which depicts the dissemination of English culture in Nigeria and its effects on the life and identity of Obi Okonkwo, the Western educated male protagonist. The focus of this paper is on the dissemination of English culture and submission of Nigerian culture in…
Descriptors: Foreign Culture, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Stereotypes
Peer reviewedBabalola, C. A. – Phylon, 1986
Offers a new perspective on the novel, "No Longer at Ease," and comments on its sub-themes: the clash of two civilizations, the antipathy between youth and old age, human fallibility, social and moral decadence. In contrast with his earlier novel, Achebe writes topical satire for educated Africans. (LHW)
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, African Literature, Colonialism
Peer reviewedObi, Joe E, Jr. – Journal of Black Studies, 1990
Contends that "disillusionment novels" are characterized by a circumscribed vision of the world which itself is a function of limits set upon the authors by the historical situation of their position in society. Analyzes two Nigerian classic examples of the genre, Chinua Achebe's "A Man of the People" and Wole Soyinka's…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Literature, Authors, Ideology
Walton, G. – Universities Quarterly, 1971
Article based on the text of a public lecture given at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in April 1970 (IR)
Descriptors: African Culture, English (Second Language), English Literature, Higher Education
