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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 Historyanalyzes 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.
Author: Toyin Falola
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 11/28/2024
Series: Black Literary and Cultural Expressions
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9798765118467
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 Historyanalyzes 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.
Author: Toyin Falola
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 11/28/2024
Series: Black Literary and Cultural Expressions
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9798765118467
