Abstract
The aim of this paper is to attempt a reading of Things Fall Apart from an eco-critical perspective to show that Achebe was writing the novel in part to make his African readers aware of the extent of the embeddedness of their forefathers in the environment. To illustrate the ways through which he delineates the manifold connections between the African and the land. Achebe intends to focus on his depiction of the damage caused in the relationship between Africans and their natural world by the advent of colonization. Finally, through this paper hope to emphasize Achebe’s profound belief in the importance of the connections Africans must reactivate with nature to make themselves whole again.
Highlights
Eco-criticism has been glossed as “the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment” Eco-criticism as something that “implies the long-term imbrication of humans in a landscape of ancestry, and death, of ritual, life and work” (108)[1] Dwelling, for Gerard, involves the nexus between the lived life of a community and its rituals, between the human and the inhuman, between nature and culture
The aim of this paper is to attempt a reading of Things Fall Apart from an eco-critical perspective to show that Achebe was writing the novel in part to make his African readers aware of the extent of the embeddedness of their forefathers in the environment
Achebe intends to focus on his depiction of the damage caused in the relationship between Africans and their natural world by the advent of colonization
Summary
Eco-criticism has been glossed as “the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment” Eco-criticism as something that “implies the long-term imbrication of humans in a landscape of ancestry, and death, of ritual, life and work” (108)[1] Dwelling, for Gerard, involves the nexus between the lived life of a community and its rituals, between the human and the inhuman, between nature and culture. The aim of this paper is to attempt a reading of Things Fall Apart from an eco-critical perspective to show that Achebe was writing the novel in part to make his African readers aware of the extent of the embeddedness of their forefathers in the environment.
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