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The Uniting Cultural Topoi In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Czeslaw Milosz’s The Issa Valley

Autoren: Esther Makwin Ephraim ORCID
Uniwersytet Humanistyczno-Przyrodniczy im. Jana Długosza w Częstochowie
Schlüsselbegriffe: toposy kulturowe religia przesąd Chinua Achebe Czesław Miłosz
Veröffentlichungsdatum der gesamten Ausgabe:2021
Seitenanzahl:15 (293-307)
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CytowanieEphraim, Esther Makwin. „The Uniting Cultural Topoi In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apartand Czeslaw Milosz’s The Issa Valley”. Rocznik Komparatystyczny 12 (2021): 293–307.DOI: 10.18276/rk.2021.12-13. 

Abstract

This paper explores religion beliefs as the cultural topoi connecting the People of Gine in Lithuania to the People of Umuofia community in Nigerian via the books Things Fall Apart and The Issa Valley by Chinua Achebe and Czeslaw Milosz respectively. Both writers have earned global reputation in passionately disseminating their cultural values and experiences. Comparative Literature Studies have been employed as the theoretical base for identifying the points of similarities in religious beliefs and pagan practices in these cultures. They particularly discovered that among the deities that these people serve, both communities have female goddesses responsible for fertility, these are the goddess Liethua for Gine, and Ani for Umuafia, among other superstitious beliefs and accompanying practices.
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