the interpreters

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Anthony F

 

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November 6, 2015

 

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(13) The context of Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah (1987) is that of a stagnant political situation and entrenched repressive regimes in Nigeria. It uses various degrees of humour and irony as a set of negative knowledges, and reveals potential alternatives through transgressing the forms of dominant discourses and by countering, through myth, the monologic and hegemonic forms of the official discourses of the state through plural and dialogic styles...
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The deployment of myth in Soyinka's The Interpreters (1965), written about the time of Nigerian independence, is necessarily different: myth is articulated through a link with a class about to take power, but one which is fearful of the demands of other classes. The way myth is used in this novel, then, negates these classes, but the mythical form still manages to initiate an act of dissent precisely through the way it cuts across and creates ruptures in the surface of the text...
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