ENG140Y1 Study Guide - Simile, Chinua Achebe, Hubris
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He beats one of them during the peace week. He"s given a boy to take care of. Accidentally he kills the man"s son (they man they"re burying). White christian missionaries come over and convert his son. Achebe is the founding father of african literature and post- He"s not the first for either categories written above. Had many novels before that but he wrote the first novel to offer a blueprint for literature of resistance. Things are falling apart agin colonial power and a man who kills himself because he can"t understand it. A place that"s foreign to all of us. We never killed a child, exiled twin babies or had a polygamous marriage. Originally he had no glossary, he wanted us to figure it out. If one looks carefully each word in his dialect is followed by the word or where the author gives us a definition. Hume- there was never a civilized nation was not white.
