Chinua Achebe And The Igbo African World

Author : Chima J. Korieh,Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793652706

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Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African World by Chima J. Korieh,Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku Pdf

Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African World: Between Fiction, Fact, and Historical Representation explores Chinua Achebe’s literary works and how they communicated the Igbo-African world to readers. Engaging in the politics of representation, Achebe sought to demystify deterministic views of race and cultural ethnocentrism. While his books and commentaries have been very influential in shaping a unique and multifaceted view of the African world, some scholars have challenged Achebe’s representations of historical reality. Through in-depth analyses of his writing, contributors examine the interpretations Achebe imposed on African culture and history in his texts. The chapters cover Achebe’s engagement with critical issues like historical representation, gender relations, and indigenous political institutions in a changing society. Throughout, contributors present new ways for understanding Achebe's literary works and show how his work draws from African historical reality and identity while challenging Western epistemological hegemony.

Author : Chima J Korieh,Ijeoma C Nwajiaku
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1793652716

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Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African World by Chima J Korieh,Ijeoma C Nwajiaku Pdf

This book examines how Chinua Achebe presented the Igbo-African world in his writing by analyzing his engagement with critical issues like historical representation, gender, and indigenous political institutions. Contributors study how his work draws from African historical reality and identity while challenging Western epistemological hegemony.

Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Anthonia Chinyere Ogbonaya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89011019346

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Chinua Achebe and the Igbo World View by Anthonia Chinyere Ogbonaya Pdf

Author : Toyin Falola,Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253022578

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Igbo in the Atlantic World by Toyin Falola,Raphael Chijioke Njoku Pdf

The Igbo are one of the most populous ethnic groups in Nigeria and are perhaps best known and celebrated in the work of Chinua Achebe. In this landmark collection on Igbo society and arts, Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku have compiled a detailed and innovative examination of the Igbo experience in Africa and in the diaspora. Focusing on institutions and cultural practices, the volume covers the enslavement, middle passage, and American experience of the Igbo as well as their return to Africa and aspects of Igbo language, society, and cultural arts. By employing a variety of disciplinary perspectives, this volume presents a comprehensive view of how the Igbo were integrated into the Atlantic world through the slave trade and slavery, the transformations of Igbo identities and culture, and the strategies for resistance employed by the Igbo in the New World. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this collection includes 21 essays by prominent scholars throughout the world.

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Kalu Ogbaa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000430615

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The Life and Times of Chinua Achebe by Kalu Ogbaa Pdf

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 : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCSC:32106010624465

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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Pdf

- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from "The Odyssey through modern literature- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index- Introductory essay by Harold Bloom

Author : Benedict Chiaka Njoku
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Achebe, Chinua
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003778581

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The Four Novels of Chinua Achebe by Benedict Chiaka Njoku Pdf

"The Four Novels of Chinua Achebe" is a critical study of Africa's foremost novelist by one of Africa's foremost critics. Offering a fresh, useful and unified collection of essays, the book contains exquisite prose analysis, distinctive in its sub- ject-matter and rhetoric. Analytically and philosophically, Dr. Njoku probes Achebe's fictional world with its realistic and naturalistic trends. Dr. Njoku follows Achebe as he examines the traditional life and cultures of the Igbo people in the nineteenth century, examines the village life of the people in their early years of contact with the Europeans, and carries us to the life and traditions of the people in the 1920s. To him "No Longer At Ease" is a novel of realism heightened by serious, social and psychological analysis, and it outlines the conflict between the idealism of a European-educated African and his attempt to re-integrate himself into the life of his people. The tragic consequences of Africa's encounter with Europe are evaluated. In "A Man of The People, " Dr. Njoku shows that intellectual sophistication is not everything as he contrasts Odili's intellectual brilliance with the pragmatic, naive, political wisdom of his foil, Chief Nanga.

Author : Robert M. Wren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : African fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015038929678

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Achebe's World by Robert M. Wren Pdf

Author : Bright Summaries
Publisher : BrightSummaries.com
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9782808002264

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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Book Analysis) by Bright Summaries Pdf

Unlock the more straightforward side of Things Fall Apart with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, which centres on the great warrior and champion wrestler Okonkwo as he deals with the challenges resulting from disagreements in his clan, the arrival of white missionaries in his village and the mounting tension between tradition and modernity. The engaging narrative provides a compelling, immersive portrait of Igbo life in Achebe’s native Nigeria and a thoughtful exploration of the impact of colonialism and of themes such as masculinity, honour, pride and disobedience. Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian writer who sought to use his novels, short stories, essays and poetry to examine the struggles facing his country and expand popular conceptions of Africa and its people. He is widely considered to be the founding father of modern African literature. Find out everything you need to know about Things Fall Apart in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!

Author : Emeka George Ekwuru
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Igbo (African people)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029044166

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The Pangs of an African Culture in Travail by Emeka George Ekwuru Pdf

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0435905252

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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Pdf

Set in an Ibo village in Nigeria, the novel recreates pre-Christian tribal life and shows how the coming the white man led to the breaking up of the old ways.

Author : N. Emenyonu,E. Nnolim
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781940729138

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Remembering a Legend: Chinua Achebe by N. Emenyonu,E. Nnolim Pdf

Remembering a Legend: Chinua Achebe recaptures for the literary world the inimitable legacies of Chinua Achebe (1930-2013), Africas leading novelist and literary philosopher of the 20th century. It addresses the questions of Achebes 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 realities. The essays remind the reader how Achebe brought to the field of world literature new perspectives and vitality that distinguished the African art of storytelling from imaginative creativities elsewhere. This volume presents Achebes articulation of the traditional and modern in African narrative techniqueslinking the skills of the traditional artist (oral performer) to those of the modern writer; how the modern African creative artist can embellish his/her art with oral resources such as folktales, proverbs, sayings, festivals, songs, riddles, and myths. Chinua Achebes unique distinctions as a novelist lie in the areas of informed vision and artistic integrity. His greatest legacy to 20th century world literature probably is his pioneer role in the nativization and ingenious use of the English language. The exceptional genius of Achebe touched many traditional and cultural bases in his fiction, essays, and memoirs. The critical responses to Achebes works in this book, address adequately almost every aspect of his creative imagination and craftsmanship. The reader will find in this convenient volume several seminal studies by two eminent scholars of Achebes intriguing genius that authenticate him as among the best literary craftsmen of the 20th century and undeniably Africas best.

Author : Umelo Ojinmah
Publisher : Spectrum Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043286470

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Chinua Achebe by Umelo Ojinmah Pdf

"Chinua Achebe: New Perspectives" synthesizes the themes: power and responsibility, particularly as they affect political governance in Africa. It valiantly explores and attempts to correlate the issues of gross abuse of power and privilege as central foci in Achebe's fiction. Through a systematic appraisal of these works, from "Things Fall Apart" to "Anthills of the Savannah," Dr. Umelo R. Ojinmah makes a sustainable case, that to Achebe, things will always fall apart until "our people" begin to understand the responsibility that power imposes on those who exercise it. -- From publisher's description.