Care And Crisis In Chinua Achebe S Novels

Author : Amechi Akwanya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2024
Category : Achebe, Chinua
ISBN : 1032748338

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Care and Crisis in Chinua Achebe's Novels by Amechi Akwanya Pdf

"This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe's novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary works are studied and discussed within the discipline of literary studies and criticism. A central concept, care, which is a humane value, is found to run in the texts, and is the crux of the test that the major characters are subjected to. What challenges them as things to be taken care of through concern may be a human being in a dire circumstance, as with Ikemefuna (Things Fall Apart), the human group itself exposed to famine in what should be harvest time (Arrow of God), or the state which needs to be brought to its proper being, as Heidegger would say (No Longer at Ease and A Man of the People), or human suffering calling to be relieved (Anthills of the Savannah). The novels are all in the tragic mode, because intervention is under some kind of interdiction"--

Author : Amechi Nicholas Akwanya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040017753

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Care and Crisis in Chinua Achebe's Novels by Amechi Nicholas Akwanya Pdf

This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe’s novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary works are studied and discussed within the discipline of literary studies and criticism. A central concept, care, which is a humane value, is found to run in the texts, and is the crux of the test that the major characters are subjected to. What challenges them as things to be taken care of through concern may be a human being in a dire circumstance, as with Ikemefuna (Things Fall Apart), the human group itself exposed to famine in what should be harvest time (Arrow of God), or the state which needs to be brought to its proper being, as Heidegger would say (No Longer at Ease and A Man of the People), or human suffering calling to be relieved (Anthills of the Savannah). The novels are all in the tragic mode, because intervention is under some kind of interdiction.

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385474542

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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Pdf

“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.

Author : Ranjana Das Sarkhel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527522015

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Critiquing the Postcolonial Construct in Chinua Achebe’s Novels by Ranjana Das Sarkhel Pdf

Chinua Achebe’s novels have always been read as texts from an erstwhile colonised African nation, interpreted within the parameters suggested by postcolonial theorists. The confines of postcolonial readings have raised questions about when the ‘postcolonial’ period would end, so that writers would no longer need to ‘write back’ to the empire or ‘rewrite’ their histories. This work explores how Achebe’s novels articulate his knowledge of his own people and the manner in which he participates in the politics of representation. He critiques the postcolonial methodology, and seeks out, recovers and provides an alternative narrative of the postcolonial experience and its aftermath, even as he seems to be moving beyond it. Achebe’s narratives do not conform to the postcolonial constructs of history as telling (rather than recalling) and of nations in terms of states (rather than people). Achebe combines the techniques available to historians (documentation) with those of novelists (the imaginative re-creation of events) for his fictional evocation of the past. He emphasises both the African artists’ role in helping to create a more egalitarian society and that of the act of storytelling as a shaping force in people’s lives. As he negotiates between his narrative form and realistic subject matter, Achebe puts forward a powerful critique of colonisation and its aftermath. Achebe represents a canonical voice in the emerging discourse of writers struggling to break free from the clichéd world of anti-imperialism and decolonisation.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Igbo (African people) in literature
ISBN : 9781604135817

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Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Harold Bloom Pdf

Things Fall Apart, set in Nigeria about a century ago, is widely regarded as Chinua Achebe's masterpiece. Considered one of the most broadly read African novels, Achebe's work responded to the two-dimensional caricatures of Africans that often dominated Western literature. This invaluable new edition of the study guide contains a selection of the finest contemporary criticism of this classic novel.

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9966468048

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A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe Pdf

I en ny selvstændig afrikansk stat bekæmper en ung lærer landets korrupte og kvindeglade kulturminister for at få hævn over ham

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin Modern Classics
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0141186887

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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Pdf

Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village. With his world thrown radically off-balance he can only hurtle towards tragedy. A classic in every sense, Chinua Achebe's stark, coolly ironic novel reshaped both Africa and world literature.

Author : Nilanjan Chakraborty
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527560031

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Myth Formation in the Fiction of Chinua Achebe and Amitav Ghosh by Nilanjan Chakraborty Pdf

This book studies culture in terms of myths and how they function to construct the identity of communities. It focuses on myth formation in the fiction of Chinua Achebe and Amitav Ghosh, two major twentieth century authors from Nigeria and India respectively. The book analyses how these two authors use myth in their works to study the cultural mores of the societies they represent. Achebe represents the Igbo community of Nigeria and Amitav Ghosh represents various communities in India in both the pre-colonial and postcolonial phases, ranging from Bihar to Sundarbans in south Bengal. The book focuses on the area of myth studies in the postcolonial area of study, delving into a comparative study between the two authors and how they contribute to myth studies through their fiction.

Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0865438765

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Emerging Perspectives on Chinua Achebe by Ernest Emenyo̲nu Pdf

This compendium of 37 essays provides global perspectives of Achebe as an artist with a proper sense of history and an imaginative writer with an inviolable sense of cultural mission and political commitment.

Author : Dr. Richa Jha
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781543708202

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Love and Marriage in Africa in the Novels of Elechi Amadi, Buchi Emecheta and Chinua Achebe by Dr. Richa Jha Pdf

The theme of love and marriage in literature is perhaps as old as literature itself. Works of literature across borders and genres have worked around these twin themes to give us some of the most memorable tales, yet they appear quite neglected by the critics when making a study of African literature. The world of literary criticism has witnessed a newfound interest in the African continent, which had for a long time been suffering in ignominious darkness, yet the majority of critical study is still focused on postcolonial themes and human relationships have largely been ignored. The white man’s perception and portrayal of Africa as a land of savages, devoid of finer emotions, could be a major influence in this regard. This study strives to prove that the Africans have always had a rich history and culture of interpersonal relationships and the twin themes of love and marriage run across their literature, justifying their claim to being as capable of harboring finer emotions as any other civilization of the world. The novels under study in this research work present the importance of love in various aspects like the man-woman relationship, parent-child relationship and an individual’s love for his native land. Various types of matrimonial alliances, with the different aspects of an African marriage, such as settling of marriage, settlement and payment of the bride price, gender equations, polygamy, widow remarriage etc., have all been studied in the backdrop of the three novels taken under consideration. This research work, based on the novels of Elechi Amadi, Buchi Emecheta and Chinua Achebe, studies the representation of love and marriage in African literature as an important and recurrent theme that touches upon other aspects of the society like class division, human relationships, social beliefs, myths, superstition and most importantly, the gender perspectives.

Author : Aliki Varvogli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136627033

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Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction by Aliki Varvogli Pdf

This book offers a critical study and analysis of American fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on novels that ‘go outward’ literally and metaphorically, and it concentrates on narratives that take place mainly away from the US’s geographical borders. Varvogli draws on current theories of travel globalization and post-national studies, and proposes a dynamic model that will enable scholars to approach contemporary American fiction and assess recent changes and continuities. Concentrating on work by Philip Caputo, Dave Eggers, Norman Rush and Russell Banks, the book proposes that American literature’s engagement with Africa has shifted and needs to be approached using new methodologies. Novels by Amy Tan, Garrison Keillor, Jonathan Safran Foer and Dave Eggers are examined in the context of travel and globalization, and works by Chang-rae Lee, Ethan Canin, Dinaw Mengestu and Jhumpa Lahiri are used as examples of the changing face of the American immigrant novel, and the changing meaning of national belonging.

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307742070

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Chike and the River by Chinua Achebe Pdf

The more Chike saw the ferry-boats the more he wanted to make the trip to Asaba. But where would he get the money? He did not know. Still, he hoped. Eleven-year-old Chike longs to cross the Niger River to the city of Asaba, but he doesn’t have the sixpence he needs to pay for the ferry ride. With the help of his friend S.M.O.G., he embarks on a series of adventures to help him get there. Along the way, he is exposed to a range of new experiences that are both thrilling and terrifying, from eating his first skewer of suya under the shade of a mango tree, to visiting the village magician who promises to double the money in his pocket. Once he finally makes it across the river, Chike realizes that life on the other side is far different from his expectations, and he must find the courage within him to make it home. Chike and the River is a magical tale of boundaries, bravery, and growth, by Chinua Achebe, one of the world’s most beloved and admired storytellers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004502246

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Crisis and Creativity in the New Literatures in English by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gordon D. Killam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:469787881

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The Novels of Chinua Achebe by Gordon D. Killam Pdf

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307592705

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The African Trilogy by Chinua Achebe Pdf

Here, collected for the first time in Everyman’s Library, are the three internationally acclaimed classic novels that comprise what has come to be known as Chinua Achebe’s “African Trilogy”—with an intorduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie . Beginning with the best-selling Things Fall Apart—on the heels of its fiftieth anniversary—The African Trilogy captures a society caught between its traditional roots and the demands of a rapidly changing world. Achebe’s most famous novel introduces us to Okonkwo, an important member of the Igbo people, who fails to adjust as his village is colonized by the British. In No Longer at Ease we meet his grandson, Obi Okonkwo, a young man who was sent to a university in England and has returned, only to clash with the ruling elite to which he now believes he belongs. Arrow of God tells the story of Ezuelu, the chief priest of several Nigerian villages, and his battle with Christian missionaries. In these masterful novels, Achebe brilliantly sets universal tales of personal and moral struggle in the context of the tragic drama of colonization.