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Chinua Achebe
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- 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. He has received over 30 lifetime career awards and 28 honorary doctorates. He has written extensively on Nigeria and Africa, including Daily Life in Colonial Africa (Bloomsbury, 2024) and Daily Life in Postcolonial Africa (Bloomsbury, 2025).
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9798765118474
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic, (28 November 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 288
- Weight
- 480 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 226 x 152 x 20 mm
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