A critical analysis of Helon Habila’s waiting for an angel: a postcolonial perspective

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spelling 13129 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/view.php?ref=13129 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/search.php?search=!collection407072 Restricted Document Article Journal application/pdf 4 Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 20 Paper Capture Plug-in 1.7 Anisa 2020-08-22 20:13:39 7438-01-FH02-FBK-20-47646.pdf UniSZA Private Access A critical analysis of Helon Habila’s waiting for an angel: a postcolonial perspective Journal of Critical Reviews In essence, this paper seeks to read Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel more as the material product of the postcolonial period and a particular cultural context. Thus, the paper adopts the postcolonial theory through which African writers such as Habila strive to question the postcolonial realities in African societies. This style of African writing is called “new realism, apparently, in recognition of a wave of the verisimilar portrayal of poverty, disillusionment, misgovernance, and political ineptitude in African literature, within the context of a postcolonial Africa. The paper concludes that although Africans rejoice their newly-won independence from the colonizer, still they experience a new sort of misfortune and adversity, a form of reality following colonialism, in the hands of African leaders. This novel Waiting for an Angel illustrates the concrete repulsions of postcolonial Nigeria in a substandard sketch of the daily realities. The disgraceful and desperate image represented in the text indicates the depressed human spirit wanting and expecting an angel of freedom. 7 13 2787-2790
spellingShingle A critical analysis of Helon Habila’s waiting for an angel: a postcolonial perspective
summary In essence, this paper seeks to read Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel more as the material product of the postcolonial period and a particular cultural context. Thus, the paper adopts the postcolonial theory through which African writers such as Habila strive to question the postcolonial realities in African societies. This style of African writing is called “new realism, apparently, in recognition of a wave of the verisimilar portrayal of poverty, disillusionment, misgovernance, and political ineptitude in African literature, within the context of a postcolonial Africa. The paper concludes that although Africans rejoice their newly-won independence from the colonizer, still they experience a new sort of misfortune and adversity, a form of reality following colonialism, in the hands of African leaders. This novel Waiting for an Angel illustrates the concrete repulsions of postcolonial Nigeria in a substandard sketch of the daily realities. The disgraceful and desperate image represented in the text indicates the depressed human spirit wanting and expecting an angel of freedom.
title A critical analysis of Helon Habila’s waiting for an angel: a postcolonial perspective
title_full A critical analysis of Helon Habila’s waiting for an angel: a postcolonial perspective
title_fullStr A critical analysis of Helon Habila’s waiting for an angel: a postcolonial perspective
title_full_unstemmed A critical analysis of Helon Habila’s waiting for an angel: a postcolonial perspective
title_short A critical analysis of Helon Habila’s waiting for an angel: a postcolonial perspective
title_sort critical analysis of helon habila’s waiting for an angel: a postcolonial perspective