AFRI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Chinua Achebe, Dramatic Structure, The Sequence

• School: Carleton University
• Department: African Studies
• Course: AFRI 1001
• Professor: Nduka Otiono

Document Summary

Setting: umuofia, traditional african villain: title comes from a poem called, the second coming , the novel is considered a tragedy, tragedy is defined as an event causing long suffering. It"s considered a tragedy due to the rising action, climax and falling action of. For example, men are synonyms with strength: larger families meant wealth in tfa. In tfa, we can argue that okonkwo"s actions are justified or that he"s a demon: the language chinua uses frames the identity of the people. Narrative: how what happens in represented in terms of language, setting, voice, etc. Plot: the sequence of events that take place. Where is its circulation and who reads it?) The point is not just to see what happens in the text and understand the sequence of the plot but rather what the story is about and how what happened is structured in terms of ideology, sociology, style, etc *eurocentric/westocentric both shape and impact the traditional or ancient .