The Impact of the 19th Century  European Colonialism in Africa, in the Novel “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe

Piola, Afriliyani; Usman, Happy Anastasia

doi:10.31314/british.8.2.109-118.2019

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“…The word colonialism can be explained generally as a group of foreigners who decided to settle in another demographic place to form a new community and use the new land's natural and human resources. This term is also defined as "the direct and overall domination of one country by another based on state power being in the hands of a foreign power (For example, the direct and overall domination of Nigeria by Britain between 1900-1960" (Piola & Usman, 2019. In other words, this settlement or occupation of other lands was mainly derived from power expansion interests and economic objectives.…”

Section: Colonialism In Africa: a History Of Oppressionmentioning

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Colonialism and a history of oppression in Africa: Scenes from selected African novels

Ismail

2023

RJAH

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Examining the African suffering during the colonialism period and describing the different miseries of the African people have been the core theme of almost all African and Western writers during the colonial age and post-colonial time. Undoubtedly, all of these writings fluctuate considerably between exaggeration and degrading the human sacrifices of those countries during this period. Then, the African writers started taking the responsibility of narrating their history and describing their suffering to correct many false ideas and assumptions, many false conceptions which were established in the minds of consecutive generations. Chinua Achebe is one of the prominent authors and thinkers who has received international recognition due to his creative style of telling the African story and has impacted African literature in different ways. Through his books, he exposed many of the negative colonial impacts on the African communities and how they did their best to invade these countries politically, economically, and culturally. Achebe tried to uncover their claims, like linking Christianity and commerce together, and the only way to African progress should be through the European gates. In his novel Things Fall Apart, he tried to expose the side effects of the colonizers’ intentions to redesign the African communities up to Western standards. He assured that all colonial actions resulted in the colonizers’ good interests and were against African people. On the other hand, Ngugi Thiogn’o is interested in examining the post-colonial impacts on the African nations and how the Western colonizers succeeded in producing loyal followers adopting their beliefs and concepts. Those followers replaced the foreign occupation with another type of occupation where the people’s acceptance should be evaluated by their adaptability to the Western criteria in all life aspects. In his novel, Pedals of Blood, Thiog’o narrated the impacts of using foreign languages to diffuse the indigenous culture and lose the African identity. Throughout the novel, he examined the political elite’s corruption in African countries during the post-colonial period and how they continued colonial suppression of their nations.

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Section: Colonialism In Africa: a History Of Oppressionmentioning

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Colonialism and a history of oppression in Africa: Scenes from selected African novels

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2023

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“…The impacts can be positive and negative for them. Piola & Usman (2019) and Zen & Hetami (2019) argued that hegemony brought positive impacts through establishing regulations, stabilization, and modernization of some aspects of society. However, in Purple Hibiscus, the existing hegemony negatively impacted people who were dominated.…”

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“…Many studies have investigated hegemony. Zen & Hetami (2019) and Piola & Usman (2019) claimed that hegemony made people in the community live easier and supported modernization in Africa. Meanwhile Lasiana & Wedawati (2021) asserted that the power of hegemony performed by the dominant classes has placed the subordinate people in a difficult situation.…”

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The dislocation of Nigerian identities as the result of hegemony in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

Arnisa,

Istiani,

Anam

2023

RAINBOW

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The concept of individuality's sense of self may trigger some conflicts in an ex-colonized country. The British colonized Nigeria for sixty years, and the colonization formally ended after Nigeria declared its independence on the first of October, 1960. A new Nigerian dictatorial government performs hegemony as the remnant of colonization. This phenomenon is represented in Purple Hibiscus, which is based on the military dictatorship in Nigeria between 1980 and 1999. This study aims to find the forms of hegemony and its negative impacts on the dislocation of identity. The research method is qualitative. The data is analyzed by Gramsci's hegemony and is supported by the concept of diaspora in postcolonialism. The data is obtained based on the dominant and subordinate conflicts. Purple Hibiscus presents three forms of hegemony: restricted media, religion, and the English language. The novel shows the negative impacts of hegemony: isolation, no individual choices, oppression, and dislocation of identity. The process of identity dislocation is portrayed through emotional attachment and the realization of life-changing seen through the acceptance and interaction with American people with different backgrounds, diverse cultures, and distinct environments.

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“…Various arguments and positions have emerged regarding education's role in African society's economic and social transformation. The impact of colonialism is discussed by Piola and Happy Anastasia Usman (2019). They think that this impact occurs on the Ibo tribe in Umuofia, Nigeria-Africa.…”

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Reader’s Responses of the Colonized Land in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Bedihardjo,

Ferdinal

2022

Linguistika Kultura

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This study discusses colonialism in Africa in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. It aims to study readers' responses regarding colonialism in the novella. The research uses a reader's response approach applying David Bleich's theory and the postcolonial theory of literary criticism of Edward Said. The methods of collecting data include spreading questionnaires to local officials and library research. The investigation also uses thematic analysis, which identifies, analyzes, and interprets patterns of the data collected from the respondents. This research reveals that everyone has their own opinion and broad view of colonialism. In the readers' responses to Heart of Darkness, the readers show that they are against colonialism and judge this work as a work that describes colonialism.

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The Impact of the 19th Century European Colonialism in Africa, in the Novel “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe

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Colonialism and a history of oppression in Africa: Scenes from selected African novels

Colonialism and a history of oppression in Africa: Scenes from selected African novels

The dislocation of Nigerian identities as the result of hegemony in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

Reader’s Responses of the Colonized Land in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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