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Article: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart as a Case Study in Nietzsche's Transvaluation of Values.
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- Perspectives on Political Science
- Article date:
- June 22, 1999
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There is a tradition of theory--virtually as old as written literature itself--that views the artist as a maker of new worlds.(1) Reacting against philosophers like Plato, who sees literature as merely the imitation of an imitation, many theorists have ascribed to writers a dynamic and creative power to bring into being that which did not exist before. This article examines two such would-be creators: Friedrich Nietzsche and Chinua Achebe.
Nietzsche and Achebe at first glance seem to have little in common--one is a nineteenth-century German philosopher who never mentions Africa,(2) the other a twentieth-century African novelist who, as far as I know, has no ...