Research Paper: Style and Mind-shift: A Stylistic Reading of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Chimamanda Adechie's Americanah
UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, NIGERIA DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERARY STUDIES MA THESIS Style and Mind-shift: A Stylistic Reading of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Chimamanda Adechie's Americanah BY NEWTON-RAY U.UKWUOMA, 2015 1.1 THE BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY It is a fact that the Nigerian novel written in English went through a ponderous process in establishing a separate tradition for itself especially from the paradoxical quest for a definite means of artistic expression in another man’s language to the flood of critical, but nationalistic polemics about the acculturation of a foreign language. Writers from Nigeria have tinkered very resourcefully with this colonial imprint – the English language. Nevertheless, this tradition, which was established by and is indebted to the linguistic consciousness and sensitivity of Nigerian writers, has become a system. Its structure can be studied, classified and measured. It has definable boundaries and behaviour. The