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Article: Textual dynamics in Chinua Achebe's Home and Exile and No Longer at Ease.(Critical Essay)
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- International Fiction Review
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- January 1, 2004
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In this paper, I use Chinua Achebe's nonfiction work Home and Exile (2000) and his novel No Longer at Ease (1960) as reference points for arguing that the application of intertextual theory to postcolonial literature in such groundbreaking studies as Wolfgang Klooss's collection Across the Lines (1998) (1) and Monika Reif-Hulser's Borderlands (1999) (2) runs the risk of suppressing the critical multidimensionality of some postcolonial texts. I will call these additional dimensions "intratextual" and "extratextual," borrowing the latter term from Robert Scholes, who defines it as situating a text "in relation to culture, society, the world," (3) to which I would add: in ...
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Article: Chinua Achebe: Pure and Simple, An Oral Biography
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