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Straight brawl in an enclosed alleyway...Chinua Achebe (Circa 1980) versus Chimamanda Adichie (Circa 2017). Scoring is 50% physical fighting prowess and 50% literary talent.
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Jul 23, 2017 03:17
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$50 on Achebe, Adichie has spent too much time in the US and it has made her soft.
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Jul 23, 2017 03:21
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How does a handicap work here? Because I don't know the people you are talking about or what is involved. So, put me down for a penny.
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Jul 23, 2017 03:24
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Heart of Darkness was good and not as racist as most people think
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Jul 23, 2017 03:25
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Things Fall Apart was a p good book
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Jul 23, 2017 03:29
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8-Bit Scholar posted:Things Fall Apart was a p good book It's a book?! I only know the poem! Is the book about the poem?
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Jul 23, 2017 03:35
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Achebe's kekkei genkai, Arrow of God, is simply too powerful for any opponent to overcome
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Jul 23, 2017 03:38
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I.C. posted:How does a handicap work here? Because I don't know the people you are talking about or what is involved. So, put me down for a penny. For normal people sincerely interested Chinua Achebe is a man born into colonial times in an Igbo tribe who distinguished himself as a writer and academic. He captured the dilemma of west Africans forced to submit to this new political reality whilst still wanting to hold on to the status of their culture. His writing is evocative and engaging. Adichie is a younger woman who has described Biafra well and has more of the modern preoccupation with the personal but occasionally comes out with stupid poo poo. She gives some amazing uncomfortable descriptions of her early life and anxieties, certainly worth a read, no pair of writers are more interesting to me right now.
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Jul 23, 2017 03:44
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I.C. posted:It's a book?! I only know the poem! Is the book about the poem?
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Jul 23, 2017 03:46
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What rough beast slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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Jul 23, 2017 03:48
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drat I thought this thread was going to be about William Butler Yeates.
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Jul 23, 2017 03:49
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Osric posted:I expect any and all SA's SJWs to be familiar with Nigeria's two most famous literary figures. Unless you are hypocritical fucks? Thank you for letting me know!
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Jul 23, 2017 03:51
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gently caress off, gurf
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Jul 23, 2017 04:00
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Harald posted:Heart of Darkness was good and not as racist as most people think People think it's racist?
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Jul 23, 2017 04:02
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I.C. posted:It's a book?! I only know the poem! Is the book about the poem? The Second Coming has like a few different titles in it, it is apparently a poem lots of writers like.
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Jul 23, 2017 04:06
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im gay
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Jul 23, 2017 04:07
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Things Fall Apart. sometimes some scrub would be like "yo did that girl really use magic to find stuff cuz you said this was supposed to be realistic and magic isn't real," and Chinua was like, "Maybe you idiot white people just don't know every drat thing so get off my balls."
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Jul 23, 2017 04:07
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:People think it's racist? quote:Heart of Darkness is criticised in postcolonial studies,[18] particularly by Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe.[19] In his 1975 public lecture "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness", Achebe described Conrad's novella as "an offensive and deplorable book" that de-humanised Africans.[20] Achebe argued that Conrad, "blinkered...with xenophobia", incorrectly depicted Africa as the antithesis of Europe and civilisation, ignoring the artistic accomplishments of the Fang people who lived in the Congo River basin at the time of the book’s publication. Since the book promoted and continues to promote a prejudiced image of Africa that "depersonalises a portion of the human race," he concluded that it should not be considered a great work of art.[21][18]
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Jul 23, 2017 04:08
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8-Bit Scholar posted:The Second Coming has like a few different titles in it, it is apparently a poem lots of writers like. Wow, outrageous that such an important work was originally written by a Nigerian and then stolen by the British
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Jul 23, 2017 04:13
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Sid Vicious posted:im gay hosed up if false
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Jul 23, 2017 04:13
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Three-Phase posted:WHICH rough beast slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? fixed that
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Jul 23, 2017 04:19
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Gone Fission posted:fixed that Uhh... the big one. Second to the left.
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Jul 23, 2017 04:21
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postcolonial studies major: A Thing Is Racist.
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Jul 23, 2017 05:33
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Cumslut1895 posted:postcolonial studies major: A Thing Is Racist. This thread is about Chinua Achebe circa 1980, what could be more relevant?
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Jul 23, 2017 06:16
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WHO???
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Jul 23, 2017 07:19
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Other than both of them being poco, they're two very different authors that explored very different themes and experiences. It's a very diverse literary field. Adiche is kind of like post-post colonial lit imo Achebe though, to answer the implied question
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Jul 23, 2017 16:06
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Loden Taylor posted:$50 on Achebe, Adichie has spent too much time in the US and it has made her soft. Agreed, close thread
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Jul 23, 2017 18:16
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Sometimes I feel like Achebe gets credit for Yeats's poem
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Jul 23, 2017 18:25
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What ever happened to good old names like Michael and Susan?
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Jul 23, 2017 18:41
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I really loving hate that overtly-hostile attitude towards Heart of Darkness. I worked with a PhD who had been to Africa as a relief worker, studied colonialism and the whole nine yards and he had a nice tempered-analysis: the book is all about the breakdown of narrative, it makes everyone look bad because its true - something very very bad was going on (colonialism). Some academics just talk about Heart of Darkness like they want every copy burned, I don't get it. Something something liberals dying on the wrong hill daily.
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Jul 23, 2017 19:25
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I.C. posted:How does a handicap work here? wow, ableist much????
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Jul 23, 2017 19:27
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im not putting anything down until i can get a good look at both of the competitors
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Jul 23, 2017 22:28
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Osric posted:Straight brawl in an enclosed alleyway...Chinua Achebe (Circa 1980) versus Chimamanda Adichie (Circa 2017). Scoring is 50% physical fighting prowess and 50% literary talent.
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Jul 23, 2017 22:35
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Achebe cause they made us read that in the day
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Jul 23, 2017 23:55
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