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Chinua Achebe (Paperback)
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Chinua Achebe (Paperback)
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This literary study is an exploration and a celebration of a writer
who for the last half century has been at the forefront of modern
African writing. Since the publication of Things Fall Apart in
1958, Chinua Achebe has been credited with being the key progenitor
of an African literary tradition and his five novels read as
tracing the national narrative of Nigeria. Achebe depicts
precolonial societies disturbed by British colonization, in the
1890s and the 1930s, the dog days of colonization in the 1950s,
Independence in 1960 and the onset of neo-colonial problems of
corruption and civil war and, in his final novel, Anthills of the
Savannah (1987), the pervasive sense of postcolonial
disenchantment. This study casts back over Achebe's writing career
to assess his considerable contribution to postcolonial writing and
criticism, including his Editorship of Heinemann's acclaimed
African Writers Series which has shaped African literature for
international audiences since 1962. Yousaf's examination of
Achebe's fiction is carefully counterpointed with detailed
discussion of the Nigerian national situation and of Achebe's
essays and criticism - including his most recent and most
autobiographical collection Home and Exile (2000) published in the
year the writer celebrated his seventieth birthday.
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