The post-colonial novel Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, is one African novel that has received international acclaim. This novel deals with the traditional society of Africa, the complicated human relationships among the people living there, a no...
The post-colonial novel Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, is one African novel that has received international acclaim. This novel deals with the traditional society of Africa, the complicated human relationships among the people living there, a norm among the tribes and the tragic results caused by contact with imperialists. Things Fall Apart has played a large role in the expansion of English literature from a culture-bound literature to a literature that encompasses all literary works written in English.
The theme of this paper is about Achebe's support of Frantz Fanon's theory of violence through Things Fall Apart. My paper especially investigates how the violence theory that Fanon insisted as a means of liberation from colonialism is expressed through Okonkwo, the hero of Things Fall Apart, and how this theory affects post-colonialism.
By writing in English Achebe shows indirectly that Things Fall Apart is written for westerners, not for Africans. Also, he shows us how English as the remains of colonialism can be used as a tool of post-colonialism. In a word, it is a book of “writing back.”
He demands an analysis of the Euro-centric world view. This is the post-colonial defense against imperialism that Achebe shows in Things Fall Apart, using the style of hybridity and ambivalence. In this sense, Achebe's role as post-colonial writer is very important for decolonizing Africans from European imperialism.