The Resistance to Reality Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway and Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart
Abstract
Both Chinua Achebe and Virginia Woolf are prominent withers for their revolt and subversion against the hegemony and authority. This article aims to reflect and compare how Achebe and Woolf resist to realistic society respectively by a strategy of writing back and
stream of consciousness in Things Fall Apart and Mrs. Dalloway. The two novels reassert the identity and agency of marginalized groups,
such as women and the colonized, within traditional structures.
stream of consciousness in Things Fall Apart and Mrs. Dalloway. The two novels reassert the identity and agency of marginalized groups,
such as women and the colonized, within traditional structures.
Keywords
Things Fall Apart; Mrs. Dalloway; The Other
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/rcha.v2i5.4545
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