Chinua AchebeCambridge University Press, 1992 M03 26 - 199 páginas 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. |
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Contenido
Acknowledgements | xiii |
List of abbreviations | xiv |
Chronology | xv |
Introduction | 1 |
Origins | 4 |
A less superficial picture Things Fall Apart | 21 |
The best lack all conviction No Longer at Ease | 42 |
Religion and power in Africa Arrow of God | 64 |
The novelist as critic politics and criticism 19601988 | 102 |
Marginal lives Girls at War and Other Stories | 121 |
Poetry and war Beware Soul Brother and Other Poems | 134 |
The critic as novelist Anthills of the Savannah | 150 |
Conclusion | 165 |
Notes | 174 |
Bibliography | 186 |
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Achebe's Achebe's Novels African Literature African Novel African Witch African Writers Akueke Anthills Arrow Arrow of God attitude become Beware Soul Brother Biafra British Cary's novel chapter characters Chike's Chinua Achebe Chris Christian Christopher Okigbo civilization Clara colonial concern contrast coup Creation Day Critical Perspectives culture English Enugu European Ezeulu father feeling fiction Girls Heinemann Hopes and Impediments Igbo Ikem Ikem's Ikemefuna individual Innes and Lindfors Joyce Cary judgement Lagos language lecture literary London Longer at Ease Mister Johnson mother Nanga narrative narrator native Ngugi wa Thiong'o novelist Nsukka Nwoye Obi's Odili Okigbo Okike Okonkwo Onitsha oral People's Redemption Party Perspectives on Chinua poem poetry political proverbs published question reader Reginald reminder response role Rudbeck Savannah significance social society song story suggests takes theme Things Fall tion traditional Umuofia University Unoka village voice western Winterbottom women words
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