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Chinua Achebe
Narrating Africa in Fictions and History
Chinua Achebe
Narrating Africa in Fictions and History
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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.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. The Scholarship on Chinua Achebe
2. The Life and Times of Chinua Achebe
3. Precolonial Life and Colonialism in Things Fall Apart
4. Narrative of an Ailing Nation: No Longer at Ease
5. Cultural Conflicts and Religious Tensions: Arrow of God
6. A Foreteller: A Man of the People
7. Military Regimes and Authoritarianism: Anthills of the Savannah
8. The Sad Tale of a County at War: There Was a Country
9. Love, Innocence, and Nationhood: Chinua Achebe's Short Stories and Poems
10. The Critic: Achebe's Essays
11. Achebe and the Narration of the Nation
12. The Legacies: Narrating Africa, Probing the Present, Imagining the Future
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 09 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 320 |
| ISBN | 9798765118474 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 11 b&w illustrations |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Series | Black Literary and Cultural Expressions |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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