Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2018)

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

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Pengju Qin
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Pengju Qin
Available Online July 2018.
DOI
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
July 2018
ISBN
978-94-6252-548-1
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icadce-18.2018.7How to use a DOI?
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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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