The African Trilogy - ‘writing back’ to Mister Johnson

Trilogy of Africa - Mr. Johnson's "return" to the "trilogy of Africa" ​​has been the subject of much criticism since the advent of "the Internet of things" 40 years ago. Some of the important works focusing on the trilogy as colonial work, such as Joseph Conrad and Joe Iscari, "rewrite" previous African colonial works. Achebe himself cites these works as part of his motivation to be a writer, and in Africa they call them "a wonderful novel."

When I was young, he taught "African literature" consisted of works of Africa in Europe, such as Conrad's Dark Heart and Joyce Cary's Johnson. My boss's boss's manga boss is very happy to be shot by him. Achebe says that his resentment to the latter novel inspired writing "Fall of Apart". Please see how his novel answers the card. He also wrote a famous attack against racial discrimination about the darkness of the heart, and it continues to be the subject of intense debate.

In the words of Harvard philosopher K. Anthony Appiah, Cinnave Cave is "Founder of African literature ... in English" and may go back to his novel Mr. earlier in his 50s with Joyce Carrie. Let's meet Johnson in Achebe's native Nigeria. During the last years of British colonial rule, Akebe has read it during his time at the University of Aydavan College, with courses full of Shakespeare, Coleridge and Wordsworth, Johnson is one of a few African-related 1 One of them was outstanding. "Time" magazine recently announced that Johnson is "the best work ever done in Africa", but Akhbe and his classmates are reacting differently. As Ahe wrote in his new book "Home and Exile" and as I found in the Nigerian explanation by Irish writers, the students saw Nigerian heroes are "embarrassing stupid" helping emotions That kind of aversion, hatred, and ridiculous "

When Achebe rebelled against this book in college classes, Johnson influenced his ideas much more than his idea at the time. "The group of young students of Nigeria, the wisest student of this generation, made their views on English novels consistent, opposed to their English teachers at all, and he also supports the criticism of big cities It was "(Achebe). Home and exile 23). But this is the turning point of Achebe but he says, "Mr. Johnson did for me for not changing the way of my life, but turning me from something else to a writer. I opened my eyes and saw my house was attacked, and my house was just a house or town ... "(Akebe, house, exile 38)