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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
Akindele, Femi – 1991
Although many studies have been undertaken by literary critics and stylisticians on African English literary texts generally and Nigerian English prose fiction specifically, there has been little or no analysis of dialogue and discourse in such texts. An examination of the phenomenon of speech as manifested in conversational pieces in Nigerian…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis, Fiction
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Balogun, F. Odun – Journal of Black Studies, 1990
Reviews three folktales and a children's novella, "Chike and the River," by the Nigerian author and compares them to his adult short stories. Observes that, aside from differences in scale or degree, the style of his children's stories is basically the same as that of his adult works. (FMW)
Descriptors: African Literature, Authors, Childrens Literature, Comparative Analysis