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Author:   Ali Yiğit
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.489kg
ISBN:  

9781032577760

ISBN 10:   1032577762
Pages:   170
Publication Date:   15 May 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: COVERING ACHEBE AND BETI IN AFRICAN LITERATURE CHAPTER 2: CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES TAKE ROOT IN WEST AFRICA CHAPTER 3: THE INFLUENCES OF CHRISTIANITY AND MISSIONARIES ON ACHEBE AND BETI Achebe and Beti Appropriate European Values CHAPTER 4: READING ACHEBE AND BETI IN LIGHT OF POSTCOLONIAL THEORY CHAPTER 5: MISSIONARY PORTRAYALS IN THE NOVELS BY ACHEBE AND BETI CHAPTER 6: THINGS FALL APART AND ARROW OF GOD Local Informants Affirmative Missionary Images Arrow of God Local Informants Advantages Coming with Missionaries CHAPTER 7: THE POOR CHRIST OF BOMBA AND KING LAZARUS In the Mission: Native Africans Positive Missionary Images, and Father Drumont’s Self-Confrontation King Lazarus Imitating the White Man Positive Missionary Portrayals and Paradoxes CONCLUSION Comparative Evaluation ofthe Christian Missionaries in the Selected Authors The Counter-Discourse Against Missionary and Colonial Discourses BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Ali Yiğit is an Assistant Professor of English at the Department of Western Languages and Literatures, Kırklareli University, Turkey. He was born in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Fatih University, Turkey. His research interests include but not limited to: Literatures in English, postcolonial studies, eco-criticism, literary and cultural theories, and popular culture. He has recently published “Nowhere at Ease: Listening to Syrian Refugee Trauma in Christy Lefteri’s The Beekeeper of Aleppo (2019)” in Journal of European Studies, and “Reflections on Kenya’s Economic Impasses: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Matigari and Wizard of the Crow” in Research in African Literatures (2022).

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