Chinua Achebe : Narrating Africa in Fictions and History / Toyin Falola.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Falola, Toyin, author.

Series:

Black Literary and Cultural Expressions.

Black Literary and Cultural Expressions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Achebe, Chinua,.

Achebe, Chinua.

Africa--In literature.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

An imaginative, narratological reading of Chinua Achebe's novels, stories, poetry, and essays through a literary and historical framework. Toyin Falola analyzes fictional and historical cartographies of Africa in Achebe's literary works to offer a critical representation of Africa's present and future. In particular, he focuses on the historical valuation of a full range of the writer's works - novels including Things Fall Apart, but also short stories, poems, and essays - as important materials that have contributed to the political events in Nigeria and, by extension, Africa. The raw creativity found in Achebe's stories and his ability to tell the Nigerian story - precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial - have endeared him to many, including readers and those critical of him and his works. Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History analyzes all of the writer's works, dwelling on the Nigerian political context upon which many, if not all, of his narratives lie. As a result, it examines methodologies of narration and ideologies that allow his works to resonate with the imagination of Africa.

Contents:

The Scholarship on Chinua Achebe

The Life and Times of Chinua Achebe

Precolonial Life and Colonialism In Things Fall Apart

Narrative of an Ailing Nation: No Longer At Ease

Cultural Conflicts and Religious Tensions In Arrow Of God

A Foreteller: A Man of The People

Military Regimes and Authoritarianism: Anthills of The Savannah

The Sad Tale of a County at War: There Was A Country

Love, Innocence, And Nationhood: Achebe's Short Stories and Poems

The Critic: Chinua Achebe's Essays

Chinua Achebe and The Narration of The Nation

The Legacies: Narrating Africa, Probing the Present, Imagining The Future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798765118504

9798765118498

9798765118481

OCLC:

1428943491