This article explores Achebe’s insertion of literary-theoretical discourse into traditional narrative space in Anthills of the Savannah with a view to demonstrating part of the limitless possibilities that the continental African novel pulsates with. It evokes the coexistence of narrative and literary-theoretical discourse in this particular novel through critical focus on selected characters’ reflections on the place and role of the story and the storyteller in society, the entanglement of the story and the storyteller in political, cultural, and social issues, and the storyteller’s freedom to imagine the contours of the story in keeping with cherished political, cultural, economic, and social priorities in African societies. Admittedly, Achebe addresses some of these issues in his literary-critical texts, but scholars of the continental African novel still have to contend with the ways in which continental African novelists utilize narrative space to theorize the novel as a genre. To that end, this article avers that Achebe’s innovative co-optation of literary-theoretical issues into the narrative interstices of Anthills of the Savannah is exemplary in the development of both the continental African novel and literary-theoretical criteria that are instructive in the interpretation of this canon from an Afrocentric perspective.

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叙事斗争，理论体裁：奇努阿·阿切贝《大草原的蚁丘》中叙事和文学批评理论的融合

本文探讨了阿契贝（Achebe）将文学理论话语插入萨凡纳蚁丘（Anthills）的传统叙事空间中的现象，以证明非洲大陆小说脉动的无限可能性的一部分。通过批判性地关注人物对故事和讲故事者在社会中的位置和作用的反思，故事和讲故事者在政治，文化，社会和文化等方面的纠缠，它唤起了这本小说中叙事和文学理论话语的共存。和社会问题，以及讲故事者可以根据非洲社会珍视的政治，文化，经济和社会优先事项来自由想象故事的轮廓。诚然，阿奇贝（Achebe）在他的文学批评著作中谈到了其中一些问题，但是非洲大陆小说家仍然必须与非洲大陆小说家利用叙事空间将小说作为一种理论进行理论上的争论。为此，本文避免了阿契贝（Achebe）将文学理论问题创新地纳入萨凡纳蚁丘（Anthills）叙事间隙的现象，这是非洲大陆小说和文学理论标准发展的典范，这些标准对解释《从以非洲为中心的角度来看。