Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart Arts One Jon Beasley PDF
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Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart Arts One Jon Beasley-‐Murray March, 2014 Wrestling in The Gambia • Reprise • Review • Response • RepeCCon • IdenCty • ReacCon • History REPRISE: REMAKE/REMODEL Mr Seamus Fera “Things really fell apart in the reading list this term [. . .]. I sCll have yet to really see the whole remaking/remodeling in these books. Like I see the connecCon in Kant and Genesis and Butler and Sophocles but that is all…..and maybe Hobbes and Rousseau if I knew what the hell the former was saying. I know that this isn’t necessarily a class of “Great Books” but i think that it could use a bit more greatness and less HaiC (everything goes back to HaiC)” (“Mr Fera’s Superb Blog: The Best Blog Ever”) How Many Ways to Say “RepeCCon”? • copying • mirroring • appropriaCon • reversal • parody • homage • pasCche • inspiraCon • criCque • derivaCon • remaking • renovaCon • remodelling • covering • sampling • plagiarism • mimicry • the] • response • influence • desecraCon • sequel • reworking • reply • adaptaCon • (re-‐)reading What is Life? • YOLO? • Or is life a series of repeCCons… • Heartbeat, breathing, generaCon, cicadianism • Habits, rouCnes, rituals • Seasons, birthdays, anniversaries • The virtue of recycling? • Language Reprise • Without repeCCon, life is impossible • What does not repeat is dead • Without difference, life is equally impossible • What simply repeats is also dead • This is a book about repeCCon and death Achebe aaempts to portray the life of an Igbo (Ibo) community on its own terms, not simply in its interacCon with Europe. But his tragic vision does I(g)bo society few favours: Okonkwo never acts, only reacts; he is doomed both to simple repeCCon and because repeCCon becomes impossible. UlCmately, in Achebe’s account, the I(g)bo have neither history nor future—nor present.
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