| Chinua Achebe UK Edition Contributor(s): Thieme, John (Editor), Morrison, Jago (Author) |
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ISBN: 0719084369 ISBN-13: 9780719084362 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | African - Literary Criticism | Modern - 21st Century - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| Dewey: 823 |
| LCCN: 2014501859 |
| Series: Contemporary World Writers |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.90 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa's foremost writer. In this major new study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his work as an author, broadcaster, editor and political thinker. With new, historically contextualised readings of all of his major works, this is the first study to view Achebe's oeuvre in its entirety, from Things Fall Apart and the early novels, through the revolutionary Ahiara Declaration previously attributed to Emeka Ojukwu to the revealing final works The Education of a British Educated Child and There Was a Country. Contesting previous interpretations which align Achebe too easily with this or that nationalist programme, the book reveals Achebe as a much more troubled figure than critics have habitually assumed. Authoritative and wide-ranging, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of Achebe's work in the twenty-first century. |