Year: 1990
Type: article
Abstract: The religiosity among Igbo people is presented across the analysis of the Chinua Achebe’s novel No longer at Ease. This novel relates a contemporary story lived in Lagos, capital of Nigeria. Sometimes the action is developed in as Igbo Village in Eastern Nigeria, Umuafia the homeland of the protagonist of the novel, Obi OKONKWO. This novel presents the dramatic love story between Obi, an Igbo born free, belonging to the social stratum Diala, and a Women, Clara, nom Dialan born free is considered a taboo. This story shows the troubles the protagonist has to face when he love with a woman from a different religion related to a social stratum stigmatized.
Source: África
Author: Luzia Garcia do Nascimento
Institution: Indiana University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2725752205