Things Fall Apart: Manifestation of Oral Tradition of Igbo Community in A Post Colonial Novel

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-63
Author(s):  
Simona Tamuli
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Things Fall Apart

scholarly journals REPRESENTASI KOLONISASI TERHADAP MASYARAKAT KULIT HITAM AFRIKA DALAM NOVEL THINGS FALL APART KARYA CHINUA ACHEBE

HUMANIKA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
. Hadiyanto
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
Chinua Achebe ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Social Disintegration ◽  
African Black ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
Tribal Society ◽  
Things Fall Apart ◽  
Colonial Government

Abstract This article discusses white-skinned race colonization and its impacts on African black-skinned race tribal society and culture in African Anglophone novel Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe. The approach used in this research is post-colonial approach by using post-colonial theory to analyze phenomena as well as the implication of the colonizer and the colonized relationship. The result of this research indicates that the coming of white-skinned race colonialists in African Ibo tribe community with their colonization and cultural imperialism is implemented with varied strategies. Those strategies are proven effectively in strengthening white-skinned race’s colonial hegemony in Africa. The white-skinned race colonialists’ imperialism results in horizontal conflict and cultural-social disintegration in African native society; between the pro-colonial and the anti-colonial. Anti-colonial resistence is shown by most African native society to fight against colonial government arrogance and to resist white-skinned race imperialism in Africa. Keywords: African black-skinned race traditional culture, white-skinned race colonization, horizontal conflict, social-cultural disintegration

Bangla Rock: exploring the counterculture and dissidence in post-colonial Bengali popular music

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-47
Author(s):  
Kamalini Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Vernacular Literature ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Cultural Foundations ◽  
Vernacular Music ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
The Impact

This paper is an attempt to explore the politics and the poetics of vernacular music in modern Bengal. Drawn from extensive and in-depth research into the current “scene” (as popularly referred to in the musician and music lover circles), this paper delves into the living histories of musical and linguistic revolutions in a part of India where the vernacular literature has been historically rich, and vastly influenced by the post-colonial heritage. The popular music that grew from these political and cultural foundations reflected its own pathos, and consecutively inspired its own form of oral tradition. The linguistic and musical inspirations for Bangla Rock and the eventual establishment of this genre in a rigidly curated culture is not only a remarkable anthropological case study, but also crucial in creating discourse on the impact of this music in the creation of oral histories. This paper will discuss both the musical and the lyrical journey of Bengali counterculture in music, thus in turn exploring the scope of Bangla – as in the colloquial for Bengali, and Rock – the Western musical expression which began during the 50’s and the 60’s (also populist and political in its roots). The inception of this particular political populist narrative driven through songs and music, is rooted in the Civil Rights movement, and comparisons can be drawn in the ‘soul’ of the movements, though removed both geographically and by time. Thus this paper engages with the poetics of Bangla Rock, to understand the marginal political voices surfacing through alternative means of expression.

scholarly journals Technology in Support of Languages of The Pacific: Neo-Colonial or Post-Colonial?

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Nick Thieberger
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Internet Connections ◽  
The One ◽  
First World

The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) has been digitising recordings of traditional cultural expression, oral tradition, and music (TCE) for 17 years. A major motivation for this work is the return of these recordings to where they were made. On the one hand there is social justice in preserving records of languages that are under-represented in the internet and cultural institutions, and making them accessible in what can be characterised as a postcolonial restitution of these records. On the other hand, if it is first world academics doing this work, it risks being yet another colonial appropriation of Indigenous knowledge. In this paper I explore some of these issues to help set directions both for our own work, and for future similar projects. “From ancient times to the present, disquieting use has been made of archival records to establish, document, and perpetuate the influence of power elites.” (Jimerson, 2007: 254). A quarter of the world’s languages are found in the Pacific. In communities sustained over many hundreds of years by local economies, the globalised world impinges through urbanisation and encroaching metropolitan languages, particularly in media, accelerating language change and language shift. Technology, in the form of computers, digital files, and ways of working with them, is a first world product, access to it is costly, and the interface to it is never in a local language but always in a major metropolitan language. Training and experience in using technology is not easily obtained, leading to a divide between those who are able to use it and those who are consumers of it, typically via expensive internet connections. How can a new kind of archival enterprise “establish, document, and perpetuate” the languages and their speakers, in order to counter what Jimerson calls the influence of power elites.

scholarly journals Hegemony and Resistance in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: A Post-Colonial Study

Twejer ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 935-966
Author(s):  
Azad Hamad Sharif ◽  
◽  
Shaida Khasro M. Mirkhan
Keyword(s):  
Post Colonial ◽  
Things Fall Apart

scholarly journals Early Eurocentric Criticism of Achebe and Postcolonial Realities in Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Uche-Chinemere Nwaozuzu ◽  
Cindy Anene Ezeugwu
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Good Work ◽  
Culture Clash ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Things Fall Apart

Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart has attracted a glut of global opinions on the nature and character of the work. This is to be expected as any good work of literature will elicit much scholarly criticism. Thus, this paper looks at the early Eurocentric criticism of Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart. The study leans on bio-bibliographical approach to literary criticism. It tries to situate their conclusions within the realities of the postcolonial environment of most African societies and reaches the conclusion that features of culture clash and social dislocation which these critics misinterpreted, glossed over and out rightly dismissed have become the albatross of virtually all post-colonial African states.

Voices of Africa: Podcastas a New Form of Oral History

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-31
Author(s):  
Nadezhda E. Khokholkova
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Oral History ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
First Time

At the beginning of the 21st century, the digital revolution has become global. Digitalization has overcome the boundaries of the field of information technology and began to provoke the metamorphosis of sociocultural reality. Gradually, society itself and, as a consequence, social sciences are changing. African studies, despite the fact that digital transformations in the region have been slow, is no exception. New plots and sources started to appear; new practices and methods began to develop and apply. This article is devoted to the evolution of the oral tradition of the Africans and representatives of the global African diaspora in terms of the “digital turn”. It emphasizes the importance of oral history as one of the main directions in the study of the history and culture of Africa, introduces and analyzes the terms of “orature” and “cyberture”. The author focuses on the transformation of the form and content of African narratives in the post-colonial era. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that it is the first time an African podcast is considered as an oral historical digital source. The article provides a brief overview of podcasts created by people from Sub-Saharan and Southern Africa in the 2010s, describes the prerequisites for creating these projects, their thematic field, and analyzes their features. Particular emphasis is placed on issues of representations and interpretations of the cultural and historical experience of Africans and members of the African diaspora. The main dilemmas of placing podcasts into the context of oral history are articulated at the end of the article. The author also concludes that African podcasts are in line with the metamodern discourse.

scholarly journals Kolonialisasi Inggris dan Pengaruhnya Terhadap Masyarakat Tradisional Afrika dalam Novel Things Fall Apart Karya Chinua Achebe

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-185
Author(s):  
Hadiyanto
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
Chinua Achebe ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Tribal Culture ◽  
Social Disintegration ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
Things Fall Apart ◽  
Colonial Government

This paper discusses England colonization and its impacts on African tribal culture in African Anglophone novel Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe. The approach used in this research is post-colonial approach by using post-colonial theory to analyze phenomena as well as implication of the colonizer and the colonized relationship. The result of this research indicates that the coming of England colonialists in African Ibo tribe community with their colonization and cultural imperialism is implemented with varied strategies. Those strategies are proven effectively in strengthening England's colonial hegemony in Africa. The England colonialists' imperialism results in horizontal conflict and cultural-social disintegration in African native society; between the   pro-colonial and the anti-colonial. Anti-colonial resistence is shown by most African native society to fight against colonial government arrogance and to resist England imperialism in Africa.

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