• Shipra Jain
• Simranjit Singh

One’s cultural and ethnic identity is maintained by one’s first language. It expresses one’s myths, proverbs, folktales and even history of one’s culture and heritage in the language. It may be one of the reasons that the imperial powers tried to hallmark the native languages with their own and used of language as a key tool to impose their power and control over the colonised. There seemed two ways for the natives to fight back- one being of rejection and the other of subversion. Then of course there was the third option-to write back in the language of the Coloniser with the motive to reach out and appeal to the masses across the globe about their plight. The challenge, however, was to keep their essence, their identity alive in the language of majority. This paper makes an attempt to express the individual identity of Igbo which the colonialist had tried to suppress and take over through Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe.

Achebe, identity, colonized, other, cultural

"Dichotomy of ‘Being’ and ‘the Other’: Chinua Achebe’s, ‘Things Fall Apart’", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.795-800, January 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDW06126.pdf

"Dichotomy of ‘Being’ and ‘the Other’: Chinua Achebe’s, ‘Things Fall Apart’", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp795-800, January 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDW06126.pdf