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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.

African literature --- Achebe, Chinua --- Achebe, Albert Chinua --- Achebe, Chinualumogu Albert --- Ats'ebeh, Ts'inuʼa --- Acībī, Cinūā --- Achebe, Albert Chinualumogu --- אצ׳בה, צ׳ינוא --- أتشينى، شينوا --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Nigeria --- In literature. --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics

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Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa's foremost writer. In this study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his work as an author, broadcaster, editor and political thinker. With new, historically contextualised readings of all of his major works, this is the first study to view Achebe's oeuvre in its entirety, from 'Things Fall Apart' and the early novels, through the revolutionary 'Ahiara Declaration' - previously attributed to Emeka Ojukwu - to the revealing final works 'The Education of a British Educated Child' and 'There Was a Country'.

English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Achebe, Chinua --- Achebe, Albert Chinua --- Achebe, Chinualumogu Albert --- Ats'ebeh, Ts'inuʼa --- Acībī, Cinūā --- Achebe, Albert Chinualumogu --- אצ׳בה, צ׳ינוא --- أتشينى، شينوا --- Criticism and interpretation.

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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.

Achebe, Chinua --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Achebe, Albert Chinua --- Achebe, Chinualumogu Albert --- Ats'ebeh, Ts'inuʼa --- Acībī, Cinūā --- Achebe, Albert Chinualumogu --- אצ׳בה, צ׳ינוא --- أتشينى، شينوا --- African literature. --- Literature   . --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- African Literature. --- Postcolonial/World Literature. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Black literature (African) --- Authors, African --- Literature, Modern—20th century.

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African literature (English) --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- African authors --- Achebe, Chinua --- Achebe, Albert Chinua --- Achebe, Chinualumogu Albert --- Ats'ebeh, Ts'inuʼa --- Acībī, Cinūā --- Achebe, Albert Chinualumogu --- אצ׳בה, צ׳ינוא --- أتشينى، شينوا --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence. --- Nigerian fiction (English) --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- English fiction --- Nigerian literature (English) --- Criticism --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Literature --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- European --- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Nigerian authors --- Technique --- Evaluation --- Achebe, Chinua.

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2003 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleCombining a sustained critical engagement of Anglo-American theory with focused close-readings of major African writers, this book performs a long-overdue cross-fertilization of ideas among poststructuralism, postcolonial theory, and African literature. The author examines several influential figures in current theory such as Habermas, Althusser, Laclau and Mouffe, as well as the theorists of postcolonialism, and offers an extended reading of the Nigerian writers D.O. Fagunwa, Wole Soyinka, Amos Tutuola, and Chinua Achebe. He argues that contrary to what the purism and voluntarism common to postcolonial theory might suggest, one lesson of African letters is that significant agency can result from acts that are blind to their determinations. For George, African letters offer an instance of "agency-in-motion," as opposed to agency in theory.

African literature (English) --- Literature and society --- Agent (Philosophy) in literature. --- Decolonization in literature. --- Poststructuralism --- Postcolonialism --- Post-structuralism --- Philosophy, Modern --- Structuralism --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- History and criticism. --- History --- Social aspects --- Achebe, Chinua --- Fagunwa, D. O. --- Soyinka, Wole --- Tutuola, Amos --- Fagunwa, Daniel O. --- Fagunwa, Daniel Orowole --- Fagunwa, Daniel Orowole Olorunfẹmi --- Achebe, Albert Chinua --- Achebe, Chinualumogu Albert --- Ats'ebeh, Ts'inuʼa --- Acībī, Cinūā --- Achebe, Albert Chinualumogu --- אצ׳בה, צ׳ינוא --- أتشينى، شينوا --- شوينكا، وولي --- 渥雷・索因卡 --- Shoĭinka, Vole --- Soyinka, Akinwande Oluwole --- Wolei Suoyinka --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Nigeria --- In literature.