To view prices and purchase online, please login or create an account now.



Chinua Achebe

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Chinua Achebe
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Jago Morrison
SeriesContemporary World Writers
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:296
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9781526116796
ClassificationsDewey:823
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 16 March 2017
Publication Country United Kingdom

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. -- .

Author Biography

Jago Morrison is Senior Lecturer in English at Brunel University -- .