Academic Works

#1 How The Center Is made To Hold in Things Fall Apart by Neil Ten Kortenaar

Thesis: “How does Achebe establish his narrative authority when writing about a period more that fifty years in the past and more particularly about a world view that has lost its original integrity?” para 1

Main Points:

• The last chapter’s change of narration
• His humanization of characters
• 3rd person Omniscient affect
• Foil characters
• African vs. European
• Cultural insight vs. Objective insight
• Writing Techniques

#2 Women in Achebe’s World: A Womanist Critique by Rose Ure Mezu

Thesis:”Having been the first, so to speak, to scale the top of the Iroko, this eagle, Achebe, and other male eaglets after him, argueably have appropriated all that they have found there. This chapter will explore what is left for female eagles.”

Main Points:

• Traditional cultural approach to women
• Lack of female influence
• Chastity and virginity in Things Fall Apart
• Changing vision of women
• Modern feminism and womanism
• Women liberation

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