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标题：Independence and the Transformation of the Social Consciousness: Theories of Fanon and Said vs Achebe's Practice
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作者：Ali Assadi ; Jordan
期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2021
卷号：10
期号：1
页码：228-237
语种：English
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：Chinua Achebe’s novels are very practical and provide the reader with a thorough understanding of the field of post colonialism and specifically in the phase of transformation. The researcher going to discuss Things Fall Apart (1958) in specific and other works in general. For Edward Said and such for Fanon, social transformation, which involves large-scale social change, can be brought about by the intellectual with a critical consciousness. It is the work of the intellectual to be manageable and lead the people and their community towards genuine social transformation and change and not only national independence. Said writes in Culture and Imperialism about the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, which also applies to Achebe: “In this phase liberation, and not nationalist independence, is the new alternative, liberation which by its very nature involves, in Fanon’s words, a transformation of social consciousness beyond national consciousness” (278). National independence does not necessarily mean that there has been a social transformation of the consciousness as both Achebe and Ngugi show in their novels. These intellectuals can help provide solutions and suggestions that can enable people overcome sectarianism, tribalism, all forms of orthodoxy that excludes many sectors of society, illiteracy and unemployment or the tyrannical tendencies of their leaders.
关键词：Third World;Independence;Postcolonialism;Culture;anticolonial;transformation;Social Consciousness;armed struggle