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| | | Article Name : | | | Colonial Representations in Chinua Achebe’s
No Longer at Ease | | Author Name : | | | MUHAMMAD AZMAT
| | Publisher : | | | Bridge Center | | Article URL : |  | | | Abstract : | | | During the 19th century, England was undoubtedly a
domineering global superpower on the basis of its enormous scientific
advancement and vast colonial rule, affecting a marked majority of the
world by destroying or considerably altering the local cultures and
imposing their culture instead. In so doing, they actually created a
culture of hatred, bias, and polarization, mainly based on
misrepresentation, that is, over-representation of themselves and
under-representation of the colonized. Accordingly, the aim of this
paper was to find out as to how Chinua Achebe’s novel No Longer at
Ease (NLE) unveiled various colonial cultural representations of the
colonized Nigerians as fabricated so systematically by the English
colonizers. For this purpose, three major aspects of colonial
representation, that is, alterity, stereotyping, and Eurocentrism, were
mainly focused and delicately reviewed with reference to eminent
postcolonial thinkers, theorists, and writers. Next, in light of the
aforementioned selected aspects of the colonial representation, the
relevant discourses of the colonizers from NLE were analyzed. Finally,
it was concluded that the English colonizers represented the colonized
Nigerians mainly by three lexemes of derogatory connotation, that is,
slaves, corrupt, and uncultured, correspondingly resulting from
discursive acts of alterity, stereotyping, and eurocentricing respectively,
and that the representation of the colonized by derogatory lexemes,
especially corrupt and uncultured, appears so much antithetical to
reality. | | Keywords : | | | alterity, colonial, colonized, colonizers, connotation,
derogatory, Eurocentrism, postcolonial, representation, stereotyping |
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