O rastro do harmatão: gerações em conflito na "African Trilogy" de Chinua Achebe (1958-1964)

Abstract

The work that follows aims to analyze the African Trilogy of Chinua Achebe, aiming at the moments of generational conflicts in the narrative through the methodology of discourse analysis, thus detecting the political and nationalist pretensions of the author within the time of publication of the works. We articulate the novels in a way that goes back from the most recent time (the 1950s) to the most remote (the end of the 19th century), going through fundamental themes in the narratives, such as the permanence of colonial pretensions, the project of a colony nation , socio-political negotiations, feeling of lack of unity, in addition to the need to show the other side, which belongs to the indigenous, in this case the igbo people. Through the adoption of literary aesthetics of the colonizer (in this case, the tragic genre), we concluded that the author had the object of bringing the example to the generations who read his work, in order to create questions about what should be the future of Nigerian democracy.