A site of struggle

Two of the main justifications for concentrating on Chinua Achebe's <i>Things Fall Apart</i> and <i>No Longer at Ease</i> are that the symptomatic3 reading of these two texts will reveal how the use of language incorporates the warning that the site of the ‘shared '...

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Autor principal: Fernández, Silvana Noelí
Formato: Articulo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 1999
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/13021
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Sumario:Two of the main justifications for concentrating on Chinua Achebe's <i>Things Fall Apart</i> and <i>No Longer at Ease</i> are that the symptomatic3 reading of these two texts will reveal how the use of language incorporates the warning that the site of the ‘shared ' discourse-the literary text- is not the site of a shared mental experience and how the construction of counter-hegemonies is in part contingent on the very structure of language itself.