EUROPEAN ADVENT AND FALLING APART: CULTURAL CLASH IN THINGS FALL APART

Abstract

There is no doubt in denying the fact that Chinua Achebe is one of the leading and significant postcolonial writers. His novel, Things Fall Apart is one of the most important novels based on the theme of colonial impact on the native culture of Ibo community. Like other African texts, this work is also linked with the delineation of different kinds of cultural anxiety as well as conflicts. In the book, a perpetual conflict between tradition and modernity can be perceived due to which a state of disagreement arises, but the real argument is between the individual and the society. It is the society which scores over the individual in the African novel.