Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti

Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict goes beyond the existing clichés about the operations of the European Christian missionaries and opens alternative ways to read the chain of missionary-native African, and missionary-European colonists relationships.

Ali Yi-it is an Assistant Professor of English at the Department of Western Languages and Literatures, K-rklareli University, Turkey. He was born in Kahramanmarä, Turkey. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Fatih University, Turkey. His research interests include but not limited to: Literatures in English, postcolonial studies, eco-criticism, literary and cultural theories, and popular culture. He has recently published "Nowhere at Ease: Listening to Syrian Refugee Trauma in Christy Lefteri's The Beekeeper of Aleppo (2019)" in Journal of European Studies, and "Reflections on Kenya's Economic Impasses: Ng-g- wa Thiong'o's Matigari and Wizard of the Crow" in Research in African Literatures (2022).

Contents LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: COVERING ACHEBE AND BETI IN AFRICAN LITERATURE CHAPTER 2: CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES TAKE ROOT IN WEST AFRICA CHAPTER 3: THE INFLUENCES OF CHRISTIANITY AND MISSIONARIES ON ACHEBE AND BETI Achebe and Beti Appropriate European Values CHAPTER 4: READING ACHEBE AND BETI IN LIGHT OF POSTCOLONIAL THEORY CHAPTER 5: MISSIONARY PORTRAYALS IN THE NOVELS BY ACHEBE AND BETI CHAPTER 6: THINGS FALL APART AND ARROW OF GOD Local Informants Affirmative Missionary Images Arrow of God Local Informants Advantages Coming with Missionaries CHAPTER 7: THE POOR CHRIST OF BOMBA AND KING LAZARUS In the Mission: Native Africans Positive Missionary Images, and Father Drumont's Self-Confrontation King Lazarus Imitating the White Man Positive Missionary Portrayals and Paradoxes CONCLUSION Comparative Evaluation ofthe Christian Missionaries in the Selected Authors The Counter-Discourse Against Missionary and Colonial Discourses BIBLIOGRAPHY