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Okonkwo’s Reincarnation: A Comparison of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease
Okolie, Mary Jane Patrick Nwakaego ; Uzoma, Ginikachi Christian
CLCWeb : Comparative literature and culture, 2019-06, Vol.21 (4)
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Ashland: Purdue University Press
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Title:
Okonkwo’s Reincarnation: A Comparison of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease
Author:
Okolie, Mary Jane Patrick Nwakaego
;
Uzoma, Ginikachi Christian
Subjects:
Achebe, Chinua
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African literature
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Ambiguity
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Comparative analysis
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Comparative literature
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Eschatology
;
Familia
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Families & family life
;
Fate
;
Fathers
;
Fictional characters
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Literary characters
;
Literary criticism
;
Literatura africana
;
Literatura comparada
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Literature
;
Mitos
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Myths
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Narrative techniques
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Native culture
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Native religions
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Nigerian literature
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Novel
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Novela
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Personajes literarios
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Reincarnation
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Religion
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Tradición
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Traditions
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Tribal society
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CLCWeb : Comparative literature and culture, 2019-06, Vol.21 (4)
Description:
In their paper, "Okonkwo's Reincarnation: A Comparison of Achebe's Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease," Mary JanePatrick Nwakaego Okolie and Ginikachi Christian Uzoma explore the reincarnation myth, a global concept founded basically in religion and tradition. It was especially vibrant in the ancient times in places like Egypt, Greece, and in continents like Asia and Africa, which possess varying understandings of the myth. In Igbo tradition, for example, it is believed that reincarnation occurs within a family. Within this tradition, some of the marks of reincarnation are usually the possession of the birthmark or certain other physical features and the exhibition of character and behavioral traits of a deceased person by a living member of his/her immediate or extended family. Thus, reincarnation entails the return to life of a deceased person in a new body. Sometimes, revenge is the mission of a reincarnated body. Bearing other reincarnation intentions in view, we study Achebe's Okonkwo as one who falls within this category of reincarnation for revenge, having reincarnated through the body of his grandson Obi in No Longer at Ease to avenge himself against Umuofia and to suffer his son Nwoye, who now fathers him as Obi, for perhaps having had the effrontery to have left him and his ancestral tradition for the religion of the white man.
Publisher:
Ashland: Purdue University Press
Language:
English
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