From the Centre to the Margin: Changing Images of Whiteness in the Nigerian Novel

Elizabeth Olubukola Olaoye

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From the Centre to the Margin: Changing Images of Whiteness in the Nigerian Novel

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Pages:: 253–261

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848882829_023

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This chapter examines the new positions of whiteness in contemporary Nigerian fiction as a manifestation of the changing roles of White characters in post independent Nigeria. It also reflects ever-changing attitudes towards perceptions of whiteness in an era of globalisation. In order to do this, the paper explores the positioning of whiteness in Ngozi Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, and compares this with the images of whiteness in Chinua Achebe’s colonial novels: Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God. Through this comparative study, the paper seeks to unearth new attitudes to whiteness in contemporary Nigerian society as a manifestation of a deliberate desire to situate whiteness within a disadvantaged position in a black society.

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Unsettling Whiteness

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Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2014

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