/lit/ - Literature

>>19114143
Achebe is the single best example of a midwit. He was an ESL that got filtered by HoD and wrote a mediocre critique that wouldn't have stood in any freshman lit class besides perhaps at a community college. Things Fall Apart was an alright novel but deserves nowhere near the praise it's gotten simply on the "merit" of being black.

>>18656907
Achebe is a midwit but I'll concede the book was alright.

Things Fall Apart would probably make r*ddit cry and /pol/ laugh.

>>18299180
The issue is that they're usually the same stories with the same themes, there's nothing interesting about a lot of them. I'll give Achebe (an African not-American) shit for his Conrad criticisms, but at least Okonkwo was an interesting black character.

The critiques of HoD boggle my mind. Pseuds like Achebe decry Conrad for "dehumanizing and depriving minorities even of speech" but that's literally the point. The entire point is to show how the Congo colonial government European colonial powers as a whole dehumanized the natives. This is obvious from like the third page when Marlow is talking about how the Romans saw Celts and Britons as barbaric savages when they first showed up. Why do people lack any and all reading comprehension?

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>>18024435
I enjoyed TFA well enough, but Achebe is a midwit at best.

>>17989354
Chinua Achebe was a mediocre academic and his critiques of Conrad can only be understood as the misunderstandings of a nonnative English speaker.

Achebe is a pseud
(but I liked the book at least)

Currently reading Heart of Darkness, I'm in the mood for some stories of distant shores, even if pseuds and midwits think this blatant critique of imperialism is horribly racist.