The readings on Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God are, for the most part, steeped in Igbo culture cosmology as well deployment language texts. None, consequently, has taken up question examining both texts by means Julia Kristeva’s theory intertextuality. This research report occupies that critical void. Concretely, it utilizes select dimensions intertextuality investigating Go...

The paper critically gazes at Arudpragasam’s second novel A Passage North (2021) as a fictive temple site to commemorate the traumatic memories (during and after) of Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009). Taking cue from Gerard Genette’s structuralist theoretic observations given in Graham Allen’s book Intertextuality (2022 [2000]) with regard key term ‘Intertextuality’ along its associated terms: ‘...