Chinua Achebe: Novelist, Poet, Critic
This is a revised edition of Chinua Achebe (1980), a critical study of the most widely known African writer, which now incorporates a discussion of his most recent work, including his major new novel, Anthills of the Savannah. The study examines the context in which he writes - that complex intermingling of his own Igbo society and European colonialism - before undertaking a critical discussion of the five main novels, his poetry and short stories. Throughout, there is an underlying concern with Achebe's system of values and the pressure on them through periods of colonialism, independence, political disillusionment and civil war. The author, finally, seeks to relate Achebe's career to the role of the African writer, a subject on which the novelist has written at length.
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Chinua Achebe: Novelist, Poet, Critic
This is a revised edition of Chinua Achebe (1980), a critical study of the most widely known African writer, which now incorporates a discussion of his most recent work, including his major new novel, Anthills of the Savannah. The study examines the context in which he writes - that complex intermingling of his own Igbo society and European colonialism - before undertaking a critical discussion of the five main novels, his poetry and short stories. Throughout, there is an underlying concern with Achebe's system of values and the pressure on them through periods of colonialism, independence, political disillusionment and civil war. The author, finally, seeks to relate Achebe's career to the role of the African writer, a subject on which the novelist has written at length.
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Chinua Achebe: Novelist, Poet, Critic

Chinua Achebe: Novelist, Poet, Critic

by D. Carroll
Chinua Achebe: Novelist, Poet, Critic

Chinua Achebe: Novelist, Poet, Critic

by D. Carroll

Overview

This is a revised edition of Chinua Achebe (1980), a critical study of the most widely known African writer, which now incorporates a discussion of his most recent work, including his major new novel, Anthills of the Savannah. The study examines the context in which he writes - that complex intermingling of his own Igbo society and European colonialism - before undertaking a critical discussion of the five main novels, his poetry and short stories. Throughout, there is an underlying concern with Achebe's system of values and the pressure on them through periods of colonialism, independence, political disillusionment and civil war. The author, finally, seeks to relate Achebe's career to the role of the African writer, a subject on which the novelist has written at length.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780333490808
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 05/15/1990
Series: Novelist, Poet, Critic
Edition description: Second Edition 1990
Pages: 204
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

DAVID CARROLL

Table of Contents

Preface - Chronology - Introduction - Things Fall Apart - No Longer at Ease - Arrow of God - A Man of the People - Short Stories and Poetry - Anthills of the Savannah - Conclusion - Notes - Select Bibliography - Index
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