The Madman in the Crowd,Culture in the Plight  

作　　者：魏然[1] 

机构地区：[1]上海大学外国语学院,上海200444

出　　处：《海外英语》2011年第5X期227-228,237,共3页Overseas English

摘　　要：Chinua Achebe has been called "the father of modern African writing" and most of his novels are created respecting Nigeria people's lives and culture.In his short story The Madman,Achebe presents us a vivid experience of a person's fortune reversal from sanity to "madness" aiming to tell us the dilemma of African culture as well as the uncertainty of their national identity caused by both the colonists' invasion and the weakness of African values.Chinua Achebe has been called "the father of modern African writing" and most of his novels are created respecting Nigeria people's lives and culture. In his short story The Madman, Achebe presents us a vivid experience of a person's fortune reversal from sanity to "madness" aiming to tell us the dilemma of African culture as well as the uncertainty of their national identity caused by both the colonists' invasion and the weakness of African values.

关 键 词：MADMAN CULTURE COLONIALISM IDENTITY plight 

分 类 号：I4[文学—其他各国文学]