Essay from the year 2009 in the subject African Studies - Literature, University of Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: In the following essay I would like to focus on the post-colonial moments in Chinua Achebe's "Dead Men's Path" as well as on the construction of place. I will subdivide the whole paper into two main parts. First, I will focus on the notion of postcolonialism expressed by colonialism and imperialism and how this is represented in the short story. The second part of the essay will examine the concept of place. The ideas of boundaries, as well as of places, to establish an identity will be in the centre of my investigations.