THE CULTURAL CONFLICT AND STRUGGLE OF THE IGBOS: REREADING CHINUA ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APART

Author Name: 1. Dr. Naresh Kumar, 2. Parimal Saren

Volume/Issue: 04/08

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://doi-ds.org/doilink/01.2024-26125943/UIJIR

Affiliation:

1. Head, Department of English & Cultural Studies, Kolhan University, Jharkhand, India.
2. Assistant Professor, Department of English, Gobinda Prasad Mahavidyalaya, West Bengal, India.

ABSTRACT

The word ‘tribal’ came from the word tribes, which mean a group of people living at a particular place or region from times immemorial. Tribes are named differently at different places according to their geographical positioning, their social stratification, their own tradition and culture in the society and so on which makes them distinctive from others. Tribes are rich in their culture, customs and folk tradition etc. Many novelists involved the tribal culture or tribal issues in their writings. But no other novelists like Chinua Achebe ever portrayed the tribal culture and life so lively. He was a trend setter in such practices. Most of his novels deal with the tribal issues in postcolonial point of view. In his novel it can be seen that the indigenous people inheriting their culture and tradition even after being affected by colonial force. In postcolonial writings Africa was still in darkness. The world had seen the unseen from colonial point of view. As soon as Achebe’s Things Fall Apart published the notion about Africa was changed. In the writings of Achebe the originality of the aboriginal was exposed. In Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God the cultural clash between the native and European has been depicted.

Key words: Tradition, culture, indigenous, inheriting, aboriginal