Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African World (eBook, ePUB)

Between Fiction, Fact, and Historical Representation
Redaktion: Korieh, Chima J.; Nwajiaku, Ijeoma C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793652706
• Artikelnr.: 63905624

Autorenporträt

Chima J. Korieh is professor of African History at Marquette University. Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku teaches English and African literature in the Languages Department of Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Nigeria.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Chinua Achebe, Writing Culture, and the Politics of
Representations
Chima J. Korieh and Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku
Part I. Chinua Achebe and Igbo-African Realities
Chapter 1: Causality in Selected Cultural Novels by Chinua Achebe:
Perspectives in Igbo Metaphysics
B. E. Nwigwe
Chapter 2: (Re)Discovering the Igbo Oral Tradition in Chinua Achebe's
Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah
Alassane Abdoulaye Dia
Chapter 3: Symbols and Images in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Nureni Oyewole Fadare
Chapter 4: Igbo Communal Ethos: A Reading of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall
Apart & Arrow of God
Ijeoma Nwajiaku
Chapter 5: Things Fall Apart and Igbo Leadership: Learning and Unlearning
the Lessons of Okonkwo's Life
N. Tony Nwaezeigwe
Chapter 6: Achebe and the Pedagogy of Indigenous Knowledge Systems:
Gleanings from Arrow of God
Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku
Part II: Chinua Achebe and Politics of Representation
Chapter 7: Chinua Achebe's "'Chi' in Igbo Cosmology": Revisiting a Classic