Comparative analysis: nationalism and resistance in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Anandamath.

Abstract

By delving into the literary representations of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Anandamath, this paper aims to examine nationalism and resistance within the colonial context of Africa and the Indian subcontinent. This paper will analyze the repression of the West over the East, how the British colonial governance dominated their ruling regions. In the name of development how they change the existing cultural norms and values of the local regions and later how the native people respond to the new changes. In this dissertation, postcolonial theory will be applied. This paper will address the concepts “Self” and “Other” concepts in order to acknowledge nationalism and resistance. This paper will also address the Homi K. Bhabha’s “Hybridity” for better understanding of nationalism and resistance. This thesis paper will highlight the perspectives of colonizers and colonized people on each other, this paper will discuss how colonized people see their colonizers. The main purpose of these novels is the nuanced illustrations of colonial rule, erosion and local nationalism and resistance.