| 词条 | Two Thousand Seasons |
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ThemesThe novel focuses on the complicitness of African people to the enslavement of their people to intruders, first represented as Arabs than as European whites.[1] In doing so, the novel emphasizes the continued complicitness of African leaders in furthering the oppression of other African peoples.[1] For Armah, the intervention of outside cultures violates a past "African ideal [...] egalitarian philosophy" which can help guide the recovery of, what critic Chinyere Nwahunanya calls a "lost African Eden".[1] ReceptionCriticism of the novel is mixed. Chinua Achebe, in a 1987 interview, described Two Thousand Seasons as "unacceptable on the basis of fact, and on the basis of art. The work is ponderous and heavy and wooden, almost embarrassing in its heaviness."[2] The reviewing site Complete Review gave the novel a B+ rating, noting that it is an "often strong but ultimately too simplistic picture of Africa -- past and future".[2] The review focuses on Armah's oversimplification of the African continent's "actual sad history".[2] Gloria Steinem in a 2016 article for The New York Times Style Magazine chose Two Thousand Seasons as one of her 10 favourite books and said of Ayi Kwei Armah: "He not only redefines history, but how history is told."[3]References1. ^{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1353/mfs.0.0615| issn = 1080-658X| volume = 37| issue = 3| pages = 549–560| last = Nwahunanya| first = Chinyere| title = A Vision of the Ideal: Armah's Two Thousand Seasons| journal = MFS Modern Fiction Studies| date = 1991| url = https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modern_fiction_studies/v037/37.3.nwahunanya01.html}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web| title = Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah| website = The Complete Review| url = http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/ghana/armahak1.htm#ours}} 3. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/t-magazine/my-10-favorite-books-gloria-steinem.html "My Bookshelf, Myself – My 10 Favorite Books: Gloria Steinem"], T: The New York Times Style Magazine, 22 January 2016. Further reading
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