Frontiers of African Diaspora Studies
FADS, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026, pp.105-119.
Print ISSN: 3107-1805; Online ISSN: 3107-1813
Journal homepage: https://www.fadsjournal.com
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64058/FADS.26.01.08cafma
姚 峰（Yao Feng），汪明月（Wang Mingyue）
摘要：本文以奇诺瓦·阿契贝的生平实践与文学创作为核心，系统考察其在非洲现代英语文学谱系中的奠基性地位及其思想内涵。文章首先结合阿契贝成长背景与殖民教育经历，阐释伊博族传统文化与西方文明的双重语境如何塑造其文化主体意识，并成为持续的创作动力。其次，通过对《瓦解》《动荡》《神箭》《人民公仆》《荒原蚁丘》等代表作的分析，论证阿契贝通过对英语的挪用与重构以及对口头传统的书写化转化，建构非洲主体叙事，呈现殖民语境下的文化断裂与身份危机。进而，本文将阿契贝置于后殖民理论视域之中，结合其学术史展开反思性考察，重点讨论“混杂性”与“逆写帝国”等核心范畴。最后，从文学创作、出版实践与语言观等层面总结其思想路径，指出阿契贝在传统与现代的辩证张力中，提出一种超越文化本质主义与单一西化逻辑的非洲文化重构方案，对世界文学格局产生了深远影响。
关键词：阿契贝；非洲英语文学；后殖民批评；文化混杂
作者介绍：姚峰（通讯作者），上海师范大学外国语学院副教授。研究方向：非洲文学与思想史、全球南方文学。联系方式：yaofeng1975@shnu.edu.cn。汪明月，北京外国语大学外国文学研究所博士生。研究方向：非洲文学与思想史、全球南方文学。电子邮箱：1000546282@smail.shnu.edu.cn。
Title: Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) — Father of Modern African Literature at the Crossroads
Abstract: This article takes Chinua Achebe’s life practice and literary production as its central focus, offering a systematic examination of his foundational position and intellectual significance within the genealogy of modern African Anglophone literature. It begins by situating Achebe within his formative background and colonial educational experience, elucidating how the dual context of Igbo cultural traditions and Western civilization shaped his cultural subjectivity and served as a sustained source of creative impetus. It then analyzes major works—Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, A Man of the People, and Anthills of the Savannah—to argue that Achebe constructs an African-centered narrative through the appropriation and transformation of the English language and the textualization of oral traditions, thereby articulating cultural rupture and identity crisis under colonial conditions. Furthermore, the article places Achebe within the framework of postcolonial theory and, in conjunction with a reflective review of his scholarly reception, foregrounds key concepts such as hybridity and “the empire writes back.” Finally, by synthesizing his literary practice, publishing activities, and language ideology, it demonstrates that Achebe advances a model of African cultural reconstruction that moves beyond both cultural essentialism and a unilinear logic of Westernization, exerting a profound impact on the configuration of world literature.
Keywords: Achebe; African Anglophone literature; postcolonial criticism; cultural hybridity
Authors Biographies: Yao Feng（corresponding author）, Associate Professor, College of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Normal University. Research Interests: African Literature and Intellectual History, Global South Literature. E-mail: yaofeng1975@shnu.edu.cn. Wang Mingyue, PhD candidate, Institute of Foreign Literatures, Beijing Foreign Studies University. Research Interests: African Literature and Intellectual History, Global South Literature. E-mail: 1000546282@smail.shnu.edu.cn.
