7. • Manifested through art (sculpture)
• Representation – both believed it
• Robert Orems – 32 british = 2 Indians
• “History of British India” – James Mill
• Under the Western Eyes
9. Achebe and Canrod
• Heart of Darkness
• “Image of Africa” (1988)
• Berlin conference
• Things fall apart
10. Nationalism/Nation
•Nation and Narration (1990)
• language of those who write of it and the lives of those who
live it.
• Ambivalence
• the 'origins' of nation
•Imagined Communities (1983)
11. Language
• “The African Writer and the English
Language”
•“ … But for me there is no other choice. I
have been given the language and I intend
to use it.”
•“But it will have to be a new English, …
but altered to suit new African
surroundings.”