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" Assessing the Dilemma of a Nation at the Crossroads Protest as Landscape in Chinua Achebes "
Niyi Akingbe
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AL
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Record Number
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1076501
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Doc. No
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LA120130
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Call No
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10.1163/18757421-040001007
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Language of Document
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English
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Main Entry
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Niyi Akingbe
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Title & Author
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Assessing the Dilemma of a Nation at the Crossroads Protest as Landscape in Chinua Achebes [Article]\ Niyi Akingbe
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Publication Statement
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Leiden: Brill
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Title of Periodical
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Matatu
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Date
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2012
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40/1
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Page No
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103–121
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Abstract
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This essay interrogates the mediation of protest and literature in Chinua Achebe's . It further evaluates the preoccupation of the novel as a veritable record of various forms of protest. Protest and literature are seen to be closely related in the way in which human beings perceive of their society and the actions that they take as a result of those perceptions. Social protest can be said to refer to those mass movements, private initiatives, demonstrations, and other activities which support or oppose specific developments or situations in a given society, with a view to changing it for the better. Literature, for its part, refers to that body of written, verbal, or performed work which exercises the imagination and seeks to offer insights into the nature of the world and the place of humans in it. This essay interrogates the mediation of protest and literature in Chinua Achebe's . It further evaluates the preoccupation of the novel as a veritable record of various forms of protest. Protest and literature are seen to be closely related in the way in which human beings perceive of their society and the actions that they take as a result of those perceptions. Social protest can be said to refer to those mass movements, private initiatives, demonstrations, and other activities which support or oppose specific developments or situations in a given society, with a view to changing it for the better. Literature, for its part, refers to that body of written, verbal, or performed work which exercises the imagination and seeks to offer insights into the nature of the world and the place of humans in it.
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10.1163/18757421-040001007
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