Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History. Toyin Falola, Abimbola Adelakun
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ISBN: 9798765118474 | 320 pages | 8 Mb
- Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History
- Toyin Falola, Abimbola Adelakun
- Page: 320
- Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
- ISBN: 9798765118474
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Overview
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.