Indigenous Identity in Witi Ihimaera's "Whale Rider" and Chinua Achebe's Fiction


Bachelor Thesis, 2011

52 Pages, Grade: 1,0


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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Definition of Indigenous Identity

3. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
3.1 A “Collective Self” in Things Fall Apart
3.1.1 History and Time
3.1.2 Oral Tradition and Language
3.1.3 Rituals: the Circle
3.2 The Fixed Individual versus the Adapting Community
3.3 Diaspora Identities
3.3.1 The Notion of Change
3.3.2 Silencing: Orality into Literacy
3.3.3 Relocation
3.3.4 Unwriting Eurocentrism
3.3.5 Hybridity

4. The Whale Rider – Witi Ihimaera
4.1 “Return to History” in The Whale Rider
4.1.1 Oral Tradition and Language
4.1.2 Myth
4.1.3 Rituals: the Spiral
4.2 The Hybrid Individual versus the Collective Past
4.3 Rewriting Indigenous Identity
4.3.1 Influences of Western Culture and Globalization
4.3.2 Racism
4.3.3 Writing Motion

5. Comparison: The Shattered Circle vs. the Spiraling Journey

6. Conclusion

7. Works Cited

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Title
Indigenous Identity in Witi Ihimaera's "Whale Rider" and Chinua Achebe's Fiction
College
University of Dusseldorf "Heinrich Heine"
Grade
1,0
Author
Year
2011
Pages
52
Catalog Number
V184244
ISBN (eBook)
9783656089667
ISBN (Book)
9783656089612
File size
805 KB
Language
English
Keywords
Ihimaera, Achebe, Whale Rider, Things Fall Apart, New Zealand, Nigeria, cultural identity, indigeneity, colonialism, hybridity, indigenous, ritual, circle, spiral, Stuart Hall, No longer at ease, Okonkwo, Kahu, Maori, Ibo, Kahutia-te-Rangi, eurocentrism
Quote paper
Annemarie Pabel (Author), 2011, Indigenous Identity in Witi Ihimaera's "Whale Rider" and Chinua Achebe's Fiction, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/184244

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