{"product_id":"chinua-achebe-european-african-frictions-von-sener-salturk","title":"Chinua Achebe: European-African Frictions","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Duisburg-Essen, language: English, abstract: [...] Although there is quite a number of reasonable arguments for not welcoming Turkey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto the European ¿family¿, such as financial as well as political and ethical, the majority of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurkish people consider prejudices against Turks as the actual reason for their rejection: they\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eare (culturally) too different and more than the half of the European citizens are against a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurkish membership in the EU. Instead, a ¿privileged partnership¿ is being proposed by\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esome conservative European governments (or opposing parties such as the German Christian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDemocratic party), instead of a full membership. I think ¿full¿ needs to be emphasised here\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebecause it means a real and well-meant friendship, a step closer to becoming a family member\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eone day rather than a mere political (or strategical) ally. Well, family implies that there are\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eless differences, that one is almost alike. There are many European tenets as well as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etraditional views which hinder an honest dialogue since Europe has yet to rid itself of some\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof its dangerous ideas (¿maleficent¿ fictions) which set the world ablaze in the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeither Nigeria is honestly acknowledged, nor is (in the minds of many a European critic)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAchebe¿s writing universal5, nor is Turkey¿s fourty-year old endeavour to become a full\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEuropean member acceptable. There is, intellectually, a problem on the part of Europe to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eaccept the idea of equality which Achebe has been persistently trying to point out both in his\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enovels and in his essays (which is the same reason, I think, why Turkey is so hard done by):\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efeeling of superiority. That is why Achebe¿s books lack the quality of universal European (or\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWestern) books and is only applicable to Nigeria and likewise the reason for Turkey being a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esecond-rate country. Both of these concepts reveal classical European ideas that will ¿ in all\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprobability ¿ prove to be false during the course of the twenty-first century. In order to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esupport my thesis, which I admit sounds far-fetched at first glance, I will refer to Chinua\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAchebe¿s accounts on colonial criticism and, wherever possible, compare them to the recent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eissue in European dealings with the Other, i.e. the Turk. I will later on focus on the novels\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e¿Arrow of God¿ and ¿A Man of the People¿, particularly on the aspect of religion in ¿Arrow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof God¿ and the post-colonial phenomena of Nigeria in ¿A Man of the People¿.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783656304401\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783656304401","offer_id":39431826571357,"sku":"9783656304401","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/037bdd0a-8d87-401f-89eb-aa333e82a98f.jpg?v=1777955057","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/chinua-achebe-european-african-frictions-von-sener-salturk","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}