Textual dynamics in Chinua Achebe's Home and Exile and No Longer at Ease

In this paper, I use Chinua Achebe's nonfiction work abode and Exile (2000) and his novel No Longer at Ease (1960) as concern points for arguing that the application of intertextual theory to postcolonial literature in of that kind groundbreaking studies as Wolfgang Klooss's collection Across the Lines (1998) (1) and Monika Reif-Hulser's Borderlands (1999) (2) step quicklys the risk of suppressing the critical multidimensionality of a certain quantity of postcolonial texts. I will call these additional dimensions "intratextual" and "extratextual," borrowing the latter limit from Robert Scholes, who defines it as situating a true copy "in relation to culture, society, the world," (3) to which I