Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti

Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict goes beyond the existing clichés about the operations of the European Christian missionaries and opens alternative ways to read the chain of missionary-native African, and missionary-European colonists relationships.

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Ali Yigit is an Assistant Professor of English at the Department of Western Languages and Literatures, Kirklareli University, Turkey. He was born in Kahramanmaras, Turkey. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Fatih University, Turkey. His research interests include but not limited to: Literatures in English, postcolonial studies, eco-criticism, literary and cultural theories, and popular culture. He has recently published "Nowhere at Ease: Listening to Syrian Refugee Trauma in Christy Lefteri's The Beekeeper of Aleppo (2019)" in Journal of European Studies, and "Reflections on Kenya's Economic Impasses: Ng g wa Thiong'o's Matigari and Wizard of the Crow" in Research in African Literatures (2022).

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Contents

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1: COVERING ACHEBE AND BETI IN AFRICAN LITERATURE

CHAPTER 2: CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES TAKE ROOT IN WEST AFRICA

CHAPTER 3: THE INFLUENCES OF CHRISTIANITY AND MISSIONARIES ON ACHEBE AND BETI

Achebe and Beti Appropriate European Values

CHAPTER 4: READING ACHEBE AND BETI IN LIGHT OF POSTCOLONIAL THEORY

CHAPTER 5: MISSIONARY PORTRAYALS IN THE NOVELS BY ACHEBE AND BETI

CHAPTER 6: THINGS FALL APART AND ARROW OF GOD

Local Informants

Affirmative Missionary Images

Arrow of God

Local Informants

Advantages Coming with Missionaries

CHAPTER 7: THE POOR CHRIST OF BOMBA AND KING LAZARUS

In the Mission: Native Africans

Positive Missionary Images, and Father Drumont's Self-Confrontation

King Lazarus

Imitating the White Man

Positive Missionary Portrayals and Paradoxes

CONCLUSION

Comparative Evaluation ofthe Christian Missionaries in the Selected Authors

The Counter-Discourse Against Missionary and Colonial Discourses

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