The Study of Narrator’s Function in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in the Light of Postcolonial Narratology | ||
| پژوهش ادبیات معاصر جهان | ||
| Article 5, Volume 16, Issue 4, January 2013, Pages 69-89 PDF (335.05 K) | ||
| DOI: 10.22059/jor.2012.29334 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ahad Mehrvand; Fatemeh Zoleykani | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Western Imperialism always depicted a biased image of the colonized nations . Therefore , portraying th e reality of Africa to restore the lost dignity of the natives is one of the aims of postcolonial literature . Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is an attempt in this regard . Employing postcolonial narratology , the present study examines the relation of the novel ’ s point of view and the concept of decolonization . Dwelling on Gerard Genette ’ s narratology in which point of view is divided into two different concepts of focalization and narration , this study investigates how the potentialities of extradiegetic narrator such as high degree of reliability are at the service of decolonization in the novel . I n other words, the choice o f t his sort of narrator provides Achebe with options to fulfill his very aim which would not be accomplished with a different choice. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Achebe; Decolonization; Focalization; Narrator; Postcolonial Narratology | ||
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