Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays

Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays

by Chinua Achebe
Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays

Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays

by Chinua Achebe

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Overview

One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our society in a collection of essays spanning his best writing and lectures from the last twenty-three years. For Achebe, overcoming goes hand in hand with eradicating the destructive effects of racism and injustice in Western society. He reveals the impediments that still stand in the way of open, equal dialogue between Africans and Europeans, between blacks and whites, but also instills us with hope that they will soon be overcome.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307816467
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 02/22/2012
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 748,579
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

About The Author
Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. His first novel, Things Falls Apart, became a classic of international literature and required reading for students worldwide. He also authored four subsequent novels, two short-story collections, and numerous other books. He was the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University and, for over 15 years, was the Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. In 2007, Achebe was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement. He died in 2013.
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