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Title
Chinua Achebe and the politics of narration : envisioning language / Thomas Jay Lynn.
ISBN
9783319513317 (electronic book)
3319513311 (electronic book)
9783319513300
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
PR9387.9.A3
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.914
Summary
This book examines vital intersections of narration, linguistic innovation, and political insight that distinguish Chinua Achebe’s fiction as well as his non-fiction commentaries. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of these intersections: Achebe’s narrative response to Western authors who have written on Africa, his integration of Igbo folklore, the political implications of writing African literature in English, his use of Nigerian Pidgin, and the Nigerian Civil War. It also addresses the teaching of Achebe’s works. Achebe drew on diverse resources to offer searching psychological and political insights that contribute not only a decidedly African political viewpoint to the modern novel, but also a more inclusive narrative consciousness. Achebe’s adaptations of Igbo oral art are intrinsic to his writing’s political engagement because they assert the integrity and authority of the African voice in a global order defined by colonialism. This book reveals how his work has helped to restructure a global vision of Africa.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed August 17, 2017).
Series
African histories and modernities.
Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Narration; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction; I. Envisioning Language and the Politics of Narration; II. Chinua Achebe; Notes; Works Cited; 2 An Adequate Revolution: Achebe Writes Africa Anew; Notes; Works Cited; 3 Of Flight, Fraud, and Freedom: Achebe's Political Tricksters; Notes; Works Cited; 4 Language and Ambivalence in Achebe's Writing; Notes; Works Cited; 5 Language and the Power of Subordination: Achebe's Integration of Nigerian Pidgin; Notes; Works Cited; 6 Beyond Black and White: British Identity in Achebe's Fiction; Notes; Works Cited
7 Catastrophe, Aftermath, Amnesia: Chinua Achebe's "Civil Peace"Note; Works Cited; 8 Unfolding Dialogue: Teaching Achebe's Fiction; Notes; Works Cited; 9 Conclusion: The Ends of Narration; Note; Works Cited; Index
