Tag Archives: Christianity

Annotated Bibliography

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Jonathan Dunn

I’m planning to explore issues of religious confrontation and conversion in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart – focusing on those specific moments where worldviews collide. I’m not as interested (to borrow the phrasing of one critic) in moments of hybridization or … Continue reading →

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Final Paper Preliminary Notes

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Jonathan Dunn

As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m interested in looking more closely at the relationship between religion (specifically, I think, Christianity) and the African novel, though I haven’t yet decided which text(s) I’d like to bring into conversation with … Continue reading →

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Final Paper Ideas: Metaphor/Allegory in the African Novel

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Lily Howard-Hill

I’m currently torn between two potential areas of focus for my final conference paper, although there is the potential to combine them in some way. The first would look at the use of metaphor and allegory in both the African … Continue reading →

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Western Religion in Colonial and Postcolonial Life

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Jonathan Dunn

I wanted to address a secondary feature of Fanon’s chapter “On Violence” from The Wretched of the Earth, namely the role of religion and religious language in the process of decolonization and the postcolonial life (which will potentially feature in … Continue reading →

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