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Sujet du devoir

Bonjour,
Pour ce texte j'ai beaucoup de chose à dire pour la description. Donc je ne vais pas l'écrire mais pour l'interprétation je ne suis pas sure. En première partie j'ai envie de faire sur des auteurs et artistes engagés qui sont là pour "sauver le monde" et les inégalités mais je ne sais pas si ça peut aller. Et pour la deuxième partie je voudrais le faire sur les conditions de la colonisation à l'époque, mais je ne les connait pas. Est-ce que je peux avoir des informations ou articles en anglais dessus pour avoir qqs pistes s'il vous plait.
J'ai des mots de vocabulaire que je ne connais pas comme "un exposé", "une énumération,", "vie professionnel" (professional life ?), "son franc parlé", "transférer son savoir", "déterminé" (determined?), "descente aux enfers."
Et sinon je n'ai pas compris ce qu'était le LBO précisémement mais je pense que ce n'est pas grave.

A portrait of Chinua Achebe
1. Chinua Achebe is considered the father of the African novel in English as well as one of the world's most influential writers. He is famous for his satire and his spoken style. His novels describe the effects of Western customs and values on traditional African society. He chooses to write in "African English" to speak of "African experience in a world-wide language."
2. "I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past -with all its imperfections- was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God's behalf delivered them" (from an essay entitled Morning Yet on Creation Day, 1975.)
3. Chinua Achebe was born in 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria, the son of a teacher in a missionary school. His parents gave him the values of their traditional lbo culture, however, they were Protestants and christened him Albert. He was educated at the University College of Ibadan, Nigeria, where he studied English, history and theology. At the university Achebe rejected his British name and took his indigenous name Chinua.
4. "If we leave our gods and follow your god," asked another man, "who will protect us from the anger of our neglected gods and ancestors?"
"Yours gods are not alive and cannot do you any harm," replied the white man. "They are pieces of wood and stone."
When this was interpreted to the men of Mbanta they broke into derisive laughter. These men must be mad, they said to themselves. How else could they say that Ani and Amadiora were harmless? And Idemili and Ogwugwu too? And some of them began to go away."
(from thing fall apart, 1958.)
5. Achebe's first novel, THINGS FALL APART (1958) has been translated into some 50 languages. It is the most famous African novel in English. It has been influential, not only on African literature, but in literature around the world. As Paul Brians explains, the "most striking feature [Of Things Fall Apart] is to create a complex and sympathetic portrait of a traditional village culture in Africa. Achebe is trying not only to inform the outside world about Ibo cultural traditions, but to remind his own people of their past and to assert that it had contained much of value..."
6. The main character of the novel is Okonkwo, a lead of an Ibo community, who has strength and courage. Okonkwo's life is good : his compound is large, he has no troubles with his wives, his garden grows yams, and he is respected by his gellow villagers. When Okonkwo acidentally kills a clansman, he is banished from the village for seven years. The story is set in the 1890's, when missionaries and colonial government made their intrusion into lbo society. Eventually Okonkwo is destroyed because his unwillingness to change sets him apart from the community and he is fighting alone against colonialism.
7. The language of the novel is simple but dignified. When the characters speak, they use an elevated diction, which is meant to convey the sense of lbo speech This choice of language is brilliant and innovative, totally different from that of most earlier writers who had made their African characters speak in pidgin or inarticulate gibberish. The reader has the feeling of listening to another tongue, one with a rich and valuable tradition.
8. THINGS FALL APART was followed two years later by NO LONGER AT EASE, and ARROW OF GOD (1964) featuring the descendants of Okonkwo and the problem they face under colonialism. A MAN OF THE PEOPLE (1966) was published after the independence of Nigeria. It is a satire of corruption and power struggles in an African state in the 1960s. The novel reflects Achebe's deep personal disappointment with what Nigeria has become since independence. Achebe has published altogether over twenty books, including novels, short stories, essays and collections of poetry.
(Complied from information on Internet.)

merci d'avance

Où j'en suis dans mon devoir

Bonjour,
Pour ce texte j'ai beaucoup de chose à dire pour la description. Donc je ne vais pas l'écrire mais pour l'interprétation je ne suis pas sure. En première partie j'ai envie de faire sur des auteurs et artistes engagés qui sont là pour "sauver le monde" et les inégalités mais je ne sais pas si ça peut aller. Et pour la deuxième partie je voudrais le faire sur les conditions de la colonisation à l'époque, mais je ne les connait pas. Est-ce que je peux avoir des informations ou articles en anglais dessus pour avoir qqs pistes s'il vous plait.
J'ai des mots de vocabulaire que je ne connais pas comme "un exposé", "une énumération,", "vie professionnel" (professional life ?), "son franc parlé", "transférer son savoir", "déterminé" (determined?), "descente aux enfers."
Et sinon je n'ai pas compris ce qu'était le LBO précisémement mais je pense que ce n'est pas grave.

A portrait of Chinua Achebe
1. Chinua Achebe is considered the father of the African novel in English as well as one of the world's most influential writers. He is famous for his satire and his spoken style. His novels describe the effects of Western customs and values on traditional African society. He chooses to write in "African English" to speak of "African experience in a world-wide language."
2. "I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past -with all its imperfections- was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God's behalf delivered them" (from an essay entitled Morning Yet on Creation Day, 1975.)
3. Chinua Achebe was born in 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria, the son of a teacher in a missionary school. His parents gave him the values of their traditional lbo culture, however, they were Protestants and christened him Albert. He was educated at the University College of Ibadan, Nigeria, where he studied English, history and theology. At the university Achebe rejected his British name and took his indigenous name Chinua.
4. "If we leave our gods and follow your god," asked another man, "who will protect us from the anger of our neglected gods and ancestors?"
"Yours gods are not alive and cannot do you any harm," replied the white man. "They are pieces of wood and stone."
When this was interpreted to the men of Mbanta they broke into derisive laughter. These men must be mad, they said to themselves. How else could they say that Ani and Amadiora were harmless? And Idemili and Ogwugwu too? And some of them began to go away."
(from thing fall apart, 1958.)
5. Achebe's first novel, THINGS FALL APART (1958) has been translated into some 50 languages. It is the most famous African novel in English. It has been influential, not only on African literature, but in literature around the world. As Paul Brians explains, the "most striking feature [Of Things Fall Apart] is to create a complex and sympathetic portrait of a traditional village culture in Africa. Achebe is trying not only to inform the outside world about Ibo cultural traditions, but to remind his own people of their past and to assert that it had contained much of value..."
6. The main character of the novel is Okonkwo, a lead of an Ibo community, who has strength and courage. Okonkwo's life is good : his compound is large, he has no troubles with his wives, his garden grows yams, and he is respected by his gellow villagers. When Okonkwo acidentally kills a clansman, he is banished from the village for seven years. The story is set in the 1890's, when missionaries and colonial government made their intrusion into lbo society. Eventually Okonkwo is destroyed because his unwillingness to change sets him apart from the community and he is fighting alone against colonialism.
7. The language of the novel is simple but dignified. When the characters speak, they use an elevated diction, which is meant to convey the sense of lbo speech This choice of language is brilliant and innovative, totally different from that of most earlier writers who had made their African characters speak in pidgin or inarticulate gibberish. The reader has the feeling of listening to another tongue, one with a rich and valuable tradition.
8. THINGS FALL APART was followed two years later by NO LONGER AT EASE, and ARROW OF GOD (1964) featuring the descendants of Okonkwo and the problem they face under colonialism. A MAN OF THE PEOPLE (1966) was published after the independence of Nigeria. It is a satire of corruption and power struggles in an African state in the 1960s. The novel reflects Achebe's deep personal disappointment with what Nigeria has become since independence. Achebe has published altogether over twenty books, including novels, short stories, essays and collections of poetry.
(Complied from information on Internet.)