The Literary History Of The Igbo Novel

Author : Ernest N. Emenyonu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000040708

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The Literary History of the Igbo Novel by Ernest N. Emenyonu Pdf

This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo novel. Defining "Igbo literature" as literature in Igbo language, and "Igbo novel" as a novel written in Igbo language, the author argues that oral and written literature in African indigenous languages hold an important foundational position in the history of African literature. Focusing on the contributions of Igbo writers to the development of African literature in African languages, the book examines the evolution, themes, and distinctive features of the Igbo novel, the historical circumstances of the rise of the African novel in the pre-colonial, era and their impact on the contemporary Igbo novel. This book will be of interest to scholars of African literature, literary history, and Igbo studies.

Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038841347

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The Rise of the Igbo Novel by Ernest Emenyo̲nu Pdf

Author : Chima J. Korieh,Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Ernest N. Emenyonu,Chimalum Nwankwo,Louisa Uchum Egbunike
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847012852

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Speculative & Science Fiction by Ernest N. Emenyonu,Chimalum Nwankwo,Louisa Uchum Egbunike Pdf

"Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the writing of African and African diaspora speculative and science fiction writing. Discussions around the 'rise' of science-fiction and fantasy have led to a push-back by writers and scholars who have suggested that this is not a new phenomenon in African literature. This collection focuses on the need to recalibrate ways of reading and categorising this grenre of African writing through critical examinations both of classics such as Kojo Laing's Woman of the Aeroplanes (1988) and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's oeuvre, as well as more recent fiction from writers including Nnedi Okorafor, Namwali Serpell and Masande Ntshanga."--Back cover.

Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Rems Nna Umeasiegbu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Igbo (African people)
ISBN : UVA:X001923237

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The Study of Igbo Culture by Rems Nna Umeasiegbu Pdf

Author : Nwana, Pita
Publisher : African Heritage Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781940729176

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Omenuko by Nwana, Pita Pdf

Omenụkọ (real name: Igwegbe Odum) whose home in Okigwe, Eastern Nigeria, was a popular spot for field trips by students in schools and colleges, as well as a favourite attraction for tourists in the decades before and after the Nigerian Independence in 1960. Generations of Igbo children began their reading in Igbo with Omenụkọ, and those who did not have the opportunity to go to school still read Omenụkọ in their homes or at adult education centers. Omenụkọ was a legendary figure and his 'sayings' became part of the Igbo speech repertoire that young adults were expected to acquire. Omenụkọ, a classic in Igbo Literature, written by Pita Nwana and published in 1933 by Longman, Green & Co, Ltd, London, is in this translation made accessible to a global audience. Emenyonu utilizes his mastery of both languages (Igbo and English) to faithfully present to his audience a complete rendition of Omenụkọ as originally written. The timeless significance of this novel as a progenitor of the Igbo language novel is again underscored.

Author : Chidi Ikonné,E. Oko,Peter Onwudinjo
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books (Nigeria) Limited
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : African literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004405721

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African Literature and African Historical Experiences by Chidi Ikonné,E. Oko,Peter Onwudinjo Pdf

Author : Chima J Korieh,Ijeoma C Nwajiaku
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 N. Emenyonu,Nduka Otiono,Chiji Akoma
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781847013460

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Alt 41 by Ernest N. Emenyonu,Nduka Otiono,Chiji Akoma Pdf

Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in indigenous languages and those written in European languages or languages of colonizers. Sixty years after the Conference of African Writers of English Expression at Makerere University, the dominance in the global canon of African literatures written in European languages over those in indigenous languages continues to be an issue. This volume of ALT re-examines this central question of African literatures to ask, 'What is the state of African literatures in African languages today?' Contributors discuss the translation of Gurnah's novel Paradise to Swahili, and Osemwegie's Ọrọ Epic to English, and Wolof wrestlers' panegyrics. They analyse Edo eco-critical poetry, and the poetics of Igbo mask poetry, and morality in early prose fiction in indigenous Nigerian languages. Other essays contribute a semiotic analysis of Duruaku's A Matter of Identity, and the decolonization of trauma in Uwem Akpan's Say You're One of Them. Overall, the volume paints a complex image of African cultural production in indigenous languages, especially in the ways Africa's oral performance traditions remain resilient in the face of a seemingly undiminished presence of non-African language literary traditions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783346540980

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Chinua Achebe’s "Things Fall Apart". Read in Modernistic Terms by Anonim Pdf

Essay from the year 2021 in the subject Literature - Modern Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Tubingen, language: English, abstract: Chinua Achebe’s novel "Things Fall Apart" is a work that in a certain way depicts contemporary developments: Published in 1958, Achebe describes events in the period of the early transition phase of British colonization of Nigeria – roughly, around 1900 – referring to Okonkwo, the protagonist, and the Igbo, a native ethnic group. Both are subject to fundamental changes, but to what extent can these changes be expressed in literary terms? Are there certain markers that can be used to identify tendencies, for example modernism? This investigation will be the subject of the following essay.

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Herbert Igboanusi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015056820858

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Igbo English in the Nigerian Novel by Herbert Igboanusi Pdf

This study establishes the ethnic variety of English, Igbo English (IE), in the Nigerian novel. It demonstrates that IE is a deliberate and stylistic device arising from the influence of the Igbo language - oral and written forms, and culture on English, resulting in the clear identity of this variety. The author illustrates the distinctiveness of IE with reference to the novels of Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi, Buchi Emecheta, Chuwuemeka Ike, Nkem Nwankwo and several other writers. He goes on to explore the role of these literary writers first in the development of IE, and then more generally, in the development of Nigerian English. He comments on the implications of their work for the modern African novel as a whole, and for an approach of study to African literature from the perspective of ethnic literary tradition.

Author : Kalu Ogbaa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781573566674

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Understanding Things Fall Apart by Kalu Ogbaa Pdf

Things Fall Apart is the most widely read and influential African novel. Published in 1958, it has sold more than eight million copies and been translated into fifty languages. African culture is not familiar to most American readers however, and this casebook provides a wealth of commentary and original materials that place the novel in its historical, social, and cultural contexts. Ogbaa, an Igbo scholar, has selected a wide variety of historical and firsthand accounts of Igbo history and cultural heritage. These accounts illuminate the historical context and issues relating to the colonization of Africa by European powers, in particular Britain's colonization of Nigeria. Fascinating materials bring to light the novel's cultural context—folkways, language and narrative customs, and traditional Igbo religion. Among the documents included are a slave narrative, interviews, journal and magazine articles, and historical essays. Each chapter is followed by questions for class discussion and ideas for student paper topics. A selection of maps and photos of Igbo culture complement the text. Following a literary analysis, historical documents trace the European powers' partition of Africa and the creation and colonization of Nigeria, home of the Igbo people. Several chapters on Igbo cultural harmony feature materials that explain the Igbo view of the world of humans and the world of the spirits, Igbo language, and traditional Igbo religion and material customs. Selections on the African novelists' novel place Things Fall Apart in the context of African literature and emphasize the difference between African and Western elements of fiction. A concluding chapter examines the debate on writing African novels in ex-colonizers' languages. This casebook will greatly enhance the reader's appreciation of the novel and understanding of Igbo history, society, culture, and civilization.