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Author : Kirsten Holst Petersen,Anna Rutherford
Publisher : Heinemann International Incorporated
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : PSU:000021848346
Author : Chukwuemeka Bosah
Publisher : Ben Bosah Books
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780977339877
In essays, verse and questions, twenty two contributors representing a plethora of endeavors discuss Chinua Achebe's life and works and legacy. These contributors who were Achebe's friends, peers, colleagues, scholars, proteges, and yet others who were influenced by him and cone from different generations discuss the man and his influence in this uniquely remarkable book. Wole Soyinka and Ngugi wa Thiong'o lead and ensemble cast of outstanding individuals, that include two up and coming young writers, Ugo F. Edu and Chiderah A. Monde, in celebrating Chinua Achebe. The picture that emerges from reading this book is a beautiful mosaic of a mild mannered, but powerful man who made a difference to the lives of many people.
Author : Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780755651504
Firdaus is on death row. Her crime, the murder of a man. Born to poverty in a rural Egyptian village, her childhood dreams and ambitions had been met with neglect and abuse by the world and the men who rule it. Driven to sex work to support herself, she is faced with the moral outrage of society and the bitter knowledge that for a woman, true freedom comes only when all hope is abandoned. In Nawal El Saadawi's landmark novel, Woman at Point Zero, published here with a new foreword, Firdaus tells her unforgettable story.
Author : Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1874387087
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307372673
Achebe’s first new book in more than twenty years — a new collection of autobiographical essays from the world-renowned author of Things Fall Apart. Chinua Achebe’s characteristically measured and subtle voice is ever-present in these seventeen, beautifully nuanced pieces. The Education of a British-Protected Child offers a vivid portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria. Achebe recalls both his happy memories of reading novels in secondary school and the harsher truths of imperial rule. In “African-American Visitations,” he allows us to witness the terrifying nature of the African diaspora and what it means not to know “from whence he came.” Politics and history figure in “What is Nigeria to Me?,” “Africa’s Tarnished Name,” and “Politics of the Politicians of Language.” And Achebe’s extraordinary family comes into view in “My Dad and Me” and “My Daughters.” Charmingly personal, intellectually disciplined, and immensely wise, The Education of a British-Protected Child is an indispensable addition to the remarkable Achebe oeuvre.
Author : Désiré Baloubi,Christina R. Pinkston
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030507998
This book celebrates Chinua Achebe, one of the most profound and famous African writers of our time, and his widely read masterpiece, Things Fall Apart. The novel remains a “must read” literary text for reasons the many contributors to this book make clear in their astute readings. Their perspectives offer thought provoking and critically insightful considerations for scholars of all ages, cultures and genders.
Author : Robert M. Wren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : African fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015038929678
Author : Kalu Ogbaa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000430615
The Life and Times of Chinua Achebe introduces readers to the life, literary works, and times of arguably the most widely-read African novelist of recent times, an icon, both in continental Africa and abroad. The book weaves together the story of Chinua Achebe, a young Igboman whose novel Things Fall Apart opened the eyes of the world to a more realistic image of Africa that was warped by generations of European travelers, colonists, and writers. Whilst continuing to write further influential novels and essays, Achebe also taught other African writers to use their skills to help their national leaders to fight for their freedoms in the post-colonial era, as internal warfare compounded the damage caused by European powers during the colonial era. In this book Kalu Ogbaa, an esteemed expert on Achebe and his works, draws on extensive research and personal interviews with the great man and his colleagues and friends, to tell the story of Achebe and his work. This intimate and powerful new biography will be essential reading for students and scholars of Chinua Achebe, and to anyone with an interest in the literature and post-colonial politics of Africa.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Igbo (African people) in literature
ISBN : 9781604135817
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 : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101595985
From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a Country is a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385474542
“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 : Désiré Baloubi,Christina R. Pinkston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 303050798X
This book celebrates Chinua Achebe, one of the most profound and famous African writers of our time, and his widely read masterpiece, Things Fall Apart. The novel remains a "must read" literary text for reasons the many contributors to this book make clear in their astute readings. Their perspectives offer thought provoking and critically insightful considerations for scholars of all ages, cultures and genders.
Author : Nwando Achebe
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821440803
An unapologetically African-centered monograph that reveals physical and spiritual forms and systems of female power and leadership in African cultures. Nwando Achebe’s unparalleled study documents elite females, female principles, and female spiritual entities across the African continent, from the ancient past to the present. Achebe breaks from Western perspectives, research methods, and their consequently incomplete, skewed accounts, to demonstrate the critical importance of distinctly African source materials and world views to any comprehensible African history. This means accounting for the two realities of African cosmology: the physical world of humans and the invisible realm of spiritual gods and forces. That interconnected universe allows biological men and women to become female-gendered males and male-gendered females. This phenomenon empowers the existence of particular African beings, such as female husbands, male priestesses, female kings, and female pharaohs. Achebe portrays their combined power, influence, and authority in a sweeping, African-centric narrative that leads to an analogous consideration of contemporary African women as heads of state, government officials, religious leaders, and prominent entrepreneurs.
Author : Thomas Jay Lynn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319513317
This book examines vital intersections of narration, linguistic innovation, and political insight that distinguish Chinua Achebe’s fiction as well as his non-fiction commentaries. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of these intersections: Achebe’s narrative response to Western authors who have written on Africa, his integration of Igbo folklore, the political implications of writing African literature in English, his use of Nigerian Pidgin, and the Nigerian Civil War. It also addresses the teaching of Achebe’s works. Achebe drew on diverse resources to offer searching psychological and political insights that contribute not only a decidedly African political viewpoint to the modern novel, but also a more inclusive narrative consciousness. Achebe’s adaptations of Igbo oral art are intrinsic to his writing’s political engagement because they assert the integrity and authority of the African voice in a global order defined by colonialism. This book reveals how his work has helped to restructure a global vision of Africa.
Author : Désiré Baloubi,Christina R. Pinkston
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030507978
This book celebrates Chinua Achebe, one of the most profound and famous African writers of our time, and his widely read masterpiece, Things Fall Apart. The novel remains a “must read” literary text for reasons the many contributors to this book make clear in their astute readings. Their perspectives offer thought provoking and critically insightful considerations for scholars of all ages, cultures and genders.
