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In Metaphor, David Punter reads Chinua Achebe s postcolonial novel, Things Fall Apart (1958) which draws upon Yeats s The Second Coming (1921) for its title, arguing that the centre is responsible for the very social, political and cultural problems now being encountered in Africa, and perhaps globally (117). While in Yeats the centre is synonymous with innocence, Achebe s position as the colonised reconceptualises it to be the root of all plights. The shift in perspective caused by colonial experience endows the postcolonial writer with a weapon to rework. It also alters and indeed subverts the ideologically coded colonial network of images and metaphors to write back to the centre. Theorised as contrapuntal reading by Edward Said, it is a form of reading back from the perspective of the colonised to show how submerged but crucial presence of the empire emerges in canonical texts (Ashcroft and Ahluwalia, ....
It was the winter of 1918. A second, deadly wave of an influenza pandemic was making its way through Livingston County and across the United States. In a Dansville newspaper, an ominous cartoon appeared: the Grim Reaper, holding a calendar, was switching the year from 1918 to 1919. The cartoon, historian David Pomplas said, should the psychological toll that the 1918 flu pandemic was taking on people, even those in rural areas where social distancing was working as survival rates rising, while infection rates declines. Pomplas will revisit that pandemic in a series of online presentations for the Livingston County Historical Society. The series begins Jan. 9 and will continue for five consecutive Saturdays. ....