This book provides a detailed examination of the writings of Chinua Achebe, Africa's best-known and most widely-read author, shortlisted for the 1987 Booker Prize. Dr Innes studies his writings, lectures and activities chronologically, in the context...
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This book provides a detailed examination of the writings of Chinua Achebe, Africa's best-known and most widely-read author, shortlisted for the 1987 Booker Prize. Dr Innes studies his writings, lectures and activities chronologically, in the context of Nigerian culture and politics and their interaction with Western cultures and powers. Her analysis goes beyond that of previously published studies, to examine Achebe's short stories, essays and poetry, and his most recent publications, Anthills of the Savannah (1987) and Hopes and Impediments (1988). Particular emphasis is placed on Achebe's departure from European literary models to create a new kind of fiction which seeks to challenge the preconceptions of African and Western audiences alike, and which is of considerable literary and political significance. This study will be invaluable to readers of Achebe and to students and teachers of African literature and politics, and modern fiction "A less superficial picture" : Things fall apart -- "The best lack all conviction" : No longer at ease -- Religion and power in Africa : Arrow of God -- Courting the voters : a Man of the people -- Novelist as critic : politics and criticism, 1960-1988 -- Marginal lives : Girls at war and other stories -- Poetry and war : Beware soul brother and other poems -- Critic as novelist : Anthills of the Savannah
This book provides a detailed examination of the writings of Chinua Achebe, Africa's best-known and most widely-read author, shortlisted for the 1987 Booker Prize. Dr Innes studies his writings, lectures and activities chronologically, in the context...
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This book provides a detailed examination of the writings of Chinua Achebe, Africa's best-known and most widely-read author, shortlisted for the 1987 Booker Prize. Dr Innes studies his writings, lectures and activities chronologically, in the context of Nigerian culture and politics and their interaction with Western cultures and powers. Her analysis goes beyond that of previously published studies, to examine Achebe's short stories, essays and poetry, and his most recent publications, Anthills of the Savannah (1987) and Hopes and Impediments (1988). Particular emphasis is placed on Achebe's departure from European literary models to create a new kind of fiction which seeks to challenge the preconceptions of African and Western audiences alike, and which is of considerable literary and political significance. This study will be invaluable to readers of Achebe and to students and teachers of African literature and politics, and modern fiction "A less superficial picture" : Things fall apart -- "The best lack all conviction" : No longer at ease -- Religion and power in Africa : Arrow of God -- Courting the voters : a Man of the people -- Novelist as critic : politics and criticism, 1960-1988 -- Marginal lives : Girls at war and other stories -- Poetry and war : Beware soul brother and other poems -- Critic as novelist : Anthills of the Savannah
Remembering a Legend: Chinua Achebe recaptures for the literary world the inimitable legacies of Chinua Achebe (1930-2013), Africa�s leading novelist and literary philosopher of the 20th century. It addresses the questions of Achebe�s role in...
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Remembering a Legend: Chinua Achebe recaptures for the literary world the inimitable legacies of Chinua Achebe (1930-2013), Africa�s leading novelist and literary philosopher of the 20th century. It addresses the questions of Achebe�s role in establishing the African art of the novel, his theories and standards for the criticism of African writing. The volume articulates unequivocally how Achebe provided the message and pioneered a confident voice to African writers to express the message with audacity; repudiate without equivocation, any form of distortions of African past and present realiti
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Chinua Achebe: The Passing of a Comet; Chinua Achebe: A re-assessment; Achebe's Things Fall Apart: An Igbo National Epic; Things Fall Apart (1958) at 50: Chinua Achebe's 'Mustard Seed' *; The Colonial Encounter in the African Novel: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart; Characterization and Social Vision in Achebe's Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease: a study of the Iconoclast and the stigmatized 'other'; Characterization in The Nigerian Novel: Ezeulu in Arrow of God; Technique and Meaning in Achebe's Arrow Of God
The Form and Function of the Folk Tradition in Achebe's NovelsThe Socialist Vision in the Nigerian Novel: Chinua Achebe's The Anthills of the Savannah and Festus Iyayi's Heroes; Selection and Validation of Oral Materials for Children's Literature: Artistic Resources in Chinua Achebe's Fiction for Children; (Re) Inventing the Past for the Present: Symbolism in Chinua Achebe's How the Leopard Got His Claws; The Short Story as a Genre, with Notes on Achebe's "The Madman"
Chinua Achebe and the Problematics of Writing in Indigenous Nigerian Languages: Towards the Resolution of the Igbo Language PredicamentAchebe: Accountable to Our Society - An Interview; Dimensions of Productivity in the Poetry of Chinua Achebe; There Was a Country: Chinua Achebe's Exit Testimony to Nigeria; Back cover
