A Study of Anthills of the Savannah from the Perspective of Bakhtin’S Polyphonic Theory.doc

A Study of Anthills of the Savannah from the Perspective of Bakhtin?S Polyphonic Theory I.Introduction: Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe is known in the world for having played a seminal role in the founding and development of African literature. He continues to be considered among the most significant world writers. Achebe’s global significance lies not only in his talent and recognition as a writer, but also as a critical thinker and essayist who has written extensively on questions of the role of culture in Africa and the social and political significance of aesthetics and analysis of the postcolonial state in Africa. In addition, Achebe is distinguished in his substantial and weighty investment in the building of literary arts institutions. His work as the founding editor of the Heinemann African Writers Series led to his editing over one hundred titles in it. He continues his long-standing work on the development of institutional spaces where writers can be published and develop creative and intellectual community. Anthills of the Savannah is set in a military regime in late-20th-century Kangan, a fictitious west African republic that bears resemblances to Chinua Achebe?s native Nigeria. Employing multiple voices and flashbacks, interweaving the past and the present, fantasy and reality together, Chinua Achebe not only represents vividly the inhuman treatment the native people suffer under dictatorship but also exposes the destruction of African cultural identity and the African people?s identities. Chinua Achebe is quite good at depicting characters full of voices claiming their identities. These different voices are singing in different ways on the same theme of intention of the characters who are trying to reconstruct the self and identity of which racial discrimination and dictatorship have deprived them. They form a dialogical relationship of agreement and disagreement, supplementation and corroboration, question and answer. Except for the studies