A Picture of Africa: Frenzy, Counternarrative, Mimesis

This article completes a trilogy of essays that reexamine the quarrel between Chinua Achebe and Joseph Conrad from the angle of mimetic theory. Moving beyond the colonial/postcolonial binary, this essay focuses on Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and argues that even with respect to the notion at the hear...

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Main Author: Lawtoo, Nidesh 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2013
In: Modern fiction studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 59, Issue: 1, Pages: 26-52
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