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Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African World
Between Fiction, Fact, and Historical Representation
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Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African World
Between Fiction, Fact, and Historical Representation
About this book
Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African World: Between Fiction, Fact, and Historical Representation explores Chinua Achebe's literary works and how they communicated the Igbo-African world to readers. Engaging in the politics of representation, Achebe sought to demystify deterministic views of race and cultural ethnocentrism. While his books and commentaries have been very influential in shaping a unique and multifaceted view of the African world, some scholars have challenged Achebe's representations of historical reality. Through in-depth analyses of his writing, contributors examine the interpretations Achebe imposed on African culture and history in his texts. The chapters cover Achebe's engagement with critical issues like historical representation, gender relations, and indigenous political institutions in a changing society. Throughout, contributors present new ways for understanding Achebe's literary works and show how his work draws from African historical reality and identity while challenging Western epistemological hegemony.
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Yes, you can access Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African World by Chima J. Korieh,Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & African History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chinua Achebe and Igbo-African Realities
- Causality in Selected Cultural Novels by Chinua Achebe
- (Re)Discovering the Igbo Oral Tradition in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the
- Symbols and Imageries in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
- Igbo Communal Ethos
- Things Fall Apart and Igbo Leadership
- Achebe and the Pedagogy of Indigenous Knowledge Systems
- Chinua Achebe and Politics of Representation
- Chinua Achebe’s “‘Chi’ in Igbo Cosmology”
- Discourse, Imagination, and Models of Resistance
- The Collision of Asymmetric Civilizations
- (Re)Memorising Igbo Traditions in Achebe’s Arrow of God
- Achebe, History, and the National Question
- Telling Africa’s Story
- Narrativizing History
- Achebeism and the Nigerian Leadership Problem
- Chinua Achebe as a Voice of Reason on the Nigerian Crisis
- Chinua Achebe and the National Question
- Index
- About the Contributors