Achebe and the Linguistic Political Criticism in the Post-colonial Vision

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10.2991/icadce-18.2018.7How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Achebe; “cognitive violence”; cross-cultural "translation"

Abstract

Languages have evolved with the development of the times and with a clear ideological character. Colonial discourse is a kind of "cognitive violence". Achebe's choice of English and African native language is not a kind of racial literature that is “either this or that”, but is a "nationality literature that “can be both”. This linguistic and literary view presents the history and reality of post-colonial society in Africa. The language hybrid of Achebe opened up the “third space” of colonial language and African native language, and realized cross-cultural “translation” between different languages.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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