Understandable symbols are brought to the open. Using poetry in opening sections of the book, a convenient mode for the author’s sublime outpouring of emotions is achieved. The import of the retention is understood if it is appreciated that the memories had remained vivid after forty-two years since the end of the Nigerian Civil War. The various emotional arousals which ensured the retention of memories are shown to be mostly subconscious such that ordinary personal interactions during the war are graphically painted by the author in his push to release these emotions and achieve relief. Achebe showed these evidences in accordance with Emile Durkheim’s Theory of Social Sharing. This study aims at bringing to the open evidences of deep social catharsis in Achebe’s account of the Nigerian Civil War in his last book, There was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra.
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