/lit/ - Literature

>>18656421
Colonization was the worst mistake in human history. The Europeans already lived on the best continent, did they really need more?

>>18656421
In the cover, are they going pog?

>>18656436
This. Importation of stupid Negros was white's worst mistake.

>>18656421
Read it last year for school. Interesting read, but I got filtered

>>18656491
filtered how? Seems like a pretty straightforward read.

>>18656421
Yams.

>>18656421
This book doesn’t do what they think it does.

Just reading about the natives life and culture, you realize how terrible it was, arranged marriages, buying nobility titles for your undeserving children, having people pretend to be gods, good riddance!

>>18657015
but
>muh yams
>muh kola nuts
>muh mud hut

It do be the yt manses fault they never invented the wheel

>>18657015
Arranged marriages are unironically based. Marrying for love is a new invention.

>>18657015
>arranged marriages, buying nobility titles for your undeserving children, having people pretend to be gods
Sounds pretty based to me ngl

>>18657757
>something is old therefore it is based

>>18657015
I don’t think it was exclusively terrible. Achebe makes it sound very appealing at time even though he was critical of it.
What makes the book so great is that it is a really thoughtful and nuanced analysis of the situation rather than some sort of sappy, moralistic polemic.

>>18657848
Дa, my friend. Дa.

Eva notice how white people drive like this?

Are we supposed to feel bad that the natives were saved and brought before the Lord? The white men came and turned them away from false gods to the one true God. This book should be thanking the missionaries for their work.

>>18656421
unironically the only great mid-wit book

>>18657757
Because you're an antisocial sperg lol

>>18657015
No one who reads it will seriously think that it's defending Okonkwo's tribe's way of life. They are barbaric; there's even a part where they throw newborn babies out to die because they're twins iirc. It was a nuanced criticism of their ways and the way they changed when the missionaries came.

>>18656421
Culture.

>>18656421
the only thing i remember about this book was the grammatical errors and I couldn't tell if they intentional or the nigger who wrote it was just retarded. It was in the narration not the dialogue iirc

>>18658520
The only thing I remember is being assigned it in 3 different university courses and declining to read it every time. (Only to read it one afternoon and think--this is how white elites want me to frame black people).

While the book does deal with colonialism, the more essential idea was that of "new foreign ways"/"what is viewed externally as progress" destroying an established culture which ends up emasculating the former alpha males, promoting the dregs of society, and altering the zeitgeist of the common folk until it is so alien to the conservative people who participated in the old ways that they go absolute apeshit bc they cant cope

Its greater message is applicable to most societies. Okonkwo in many ways isnt any different from a trans-hating, maga boomer in America today.

>>18659409
I will concede that most midwit teachers will teach it as "what man bad" rhetoric which is fucking retarded. Obv the natives are not to be admired and the colonists arent really painted as being evil. The main focus is the degradation of culture and people not dealing with it well, which is a universal theme and the novels best point

>>18657757
>Marrying for love is a new invention.

Even in the days where most marriages were arranged, the goal in almost every case was that love would result. Ironically, in this regard the lower classes were freer than the upper classes, since lower-class women would be paired off in the hope that they would love their new husband, while the aristocracy would marry off its duchesses and princesses purely for political purposes.

>>18656421
O dey do be trippin doe nigga. Dey be being very trippin.

One of the other overarching themes of the book is that Okonkwo is just kind of a stupid asshole. He literally kills a man in a fit of rage. He's clearly some insane berserker type who would be useful in a time of war, against an enemy he was well-positioned to fight. But he's useless in peacetime and he's useless against the missionaries and the colonizers because they're not the sort of enemy he's equipped to combat. The whole book, from Okonwko's perspective, is a massive fish out of water story. Okonwko seems to not spend a single moment of the book in a situation that he's actually adept at handling.

>>18658321
The white man's burden is a thankless task.
You will bring the savages of the world to the 21st century and then they will outbreed and destroy you with your own technology. Thus are the wages of service to the one true God.