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

Download or read book Indigenous Identity in Witi Ihimaera's "Whale Rider" and Chinua Achebe's Fiction written by Annemarie Pabel and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011. In both Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Witi Ihimaera's The Whale Rider indigenous identity is a central topic. Yet, it is challenged by the advent of colonization or, in the latter case, by the fusion of ancient tradition and modernism. As such, the aim of this paper is to analyse the literary representation of indigeneity in these novels using Stuart Hall's dual definition in order to show how indigenous identity develops at the backdrop of colonization and what this means for the concept of identity in a postcolonial context.