Chinua Achebe

Narrating Africa in Fictions and History

AvToyin Falola,Toyin Falola

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-11-28
Mått:229 x 25 x 152 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Black Literary and Cultural Expressions
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9798765118474

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Toyin Falola is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. His publications include Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Afrobeat, Rebellion, and Philosophy (with Adeshina Afolayan; Bloomsbury, 2022), Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation (with Bola Dauda; Bloomsbury, 2021), Understanding Modern Nigeria: Ethnicity, Democracy, and Development (2021), and Nigerian Political Modernity and Postcolonial Predicaments (2016).Falola has served as the General Secretary of the Historical Society of Nigeria, the President of the African Studies Association, Vice-President of UNESCO Slave Route Project, and the Kluge Chair of the Countries of the South, Library of Congress. He is a member of the Scholars’ Council, Kluge Center, the Library of Congress. He has received over 30 lifetime career awards and 14 honorary doctorates.

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At over three hundred close-packed pages it is a very substantial work and likely henceforth to form the cornerstone of Achebe studies and to be of importance to African cultural studies more widely.

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List of IllustrationsPreface1. The Scholarship on Chinua Achebe2. The Life and Times of Chinua Achebe3. Precolonial Life and Colonialism in Things Fall Apart4. Narrative of an Ailing Nation: No Longer at Ease5. Cultural Conflicts and Religious Tensions: Arrow of God6. A Foreteller: A Man of the People7. Military Regimes and Authoritarianism: Anthills of the Savannah8. The Sad Tale of a County at War: There Was a Country9. Love, Innocence, and Nationhood: Chinua Achebe’s Short Stories and Poems10. The Critic: Achebe’s Essays11. Achebe and the Narration of the Nation12. The Legacies: Narrating Africa, Probing the Present, Imagining the FutureBibliographyIndex