Morning yet on creation day : essays / Chinua Achebe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Achebe, Chinua.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature (English)--History and criticism.

African literature (English).

African literature--History and criticism.

African literature.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 145 pages, 1 unnumbered page. ; 18 cm

Distribution:

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday.

Place of Publication:

Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press, 1976.

Contents:

Part One. Colonialist Criticism; Africa and Her Writers; Language and the Destiny of Man; Who do African Intellectuals Read?; The Novelist as Teacher; Where Angels Fear to Tread; Thoughts on the African Novel; The African Writer and the English Language; Publishing in Africa: A Writer's View

Part Two. Named for Victoria, Queen of England; Tanganyika-Jottings of a Tourist; The African Writer and the Biafran Cause; Dear Tai Solarin; Onitsha, Gift of the Niger; Chi in Igbo Cosmology.

Notes:

"A Doubleday Anchor Book."

Cover illustration Maiden Spirit Mask Nigeria ... Cover design by David November."

First published in hardcover by Anchor Press/Doublday in 1975. Anchor Books Paperback Edition: 1976".

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0385017278

OCLC:

2559226