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Chinua Achebe and an Archaeology of the Postcolonial African State.(analysis)
Patrick Chabal, the noted political scientist, should certainly have included non-African scholars of Africa too when he argues perceptively in his book, Power in Africa: An Essay in Political Interpretation, that African writers "did more to reveal the reality of postcolonial Africa than most African scholars" (8). After all, non-African scholars of Africa actually dominate both the production and dissemination of the myriad of explanations that have been employed to understand and supposedly ameliorate the crisis of the postcolonial state in Africa. To the extent that explanations have a concrete materiality to them--that is, in their ultimate transformation to (basis ...
- Chinua Achebe.(Author Profile)(Biography)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Laurence, Margaret January 1, 2005 700+ words
...Chinuatumogu Achebe changed his name to Chinua Achebe to reflect his Igbo heritage while...1987) Home and Exile (2000) "Chinua Achebe's careful and confident craftsmanship...anywhere." WLT AUTHOR FACTS AUTHOR Chinua Achebe (b. 1930) COUNTRY Nigeria PRINCIPAL...
- Chinua Achebe: A Biography.
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Dawes, Kwame June 22, 1998 700+ words
...thoroughly researched biography of the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, Ezenwa-Ohaeto finds assurance in the fact that Achebe...particularly when the subject is as important a figure as Chinua Achebe, performs a great and admirable service. In this, Ezenwa...
- Chinua Achebe wins 2007 Man Booker International Prize.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. June 13, 2007 700+ words
Chinua Achebe wins 2007 Man Booker International Prize London, June 12 (PTI) Nigerian-born Chinua Achebe, considered the father of Modern African Writing, has won the second Man Booker International Prize worth 60,000 pounds, edging out...
- Textual dynamics in Chinua Achebe's Home and Exile and No Longer at...
- Magazine article from: International Fiction Review Munro, Ian H. January 1, 2004 700+ words
In this paper, I use Chinua Achebe's nonfiction work Home and Exile (2000) and his novel No...its position as a literary text. Simon Gikandi, in Reading Chinua Achebe, makes a similar point in observing that Achebe's narrative...
- `Home and Exile,' by Chinua Achebe; Oxford University Press.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Romano, Carlin August 16, 2000 700+ words
...at Harvard two years ago, the majestic Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe shares "a charming little Igbo story" from his childhood...explore the complexities of his career in detail should read "Chinua Achebe" by Ezenwa-Ohaeto (Indiana University Press, 1997...
- Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Casebook.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: African Studies Quarterly Eze, Chielozona March 22, 2004 700+ words
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Casebook. Isidore Okpewho,ed. Oxford: University Press, 2003. 275 pp. The novel, Things Fall...
- Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart as a Case Study in Nietzsche's Transvaluation...
- Perspectives on Political Science LEVlNE, ALAN June 22, 1999 700+ words
...into being that which did not exist before. This article examines two such would-be creators: Friedrich Nietzsche and Chinua Achebe. Nietzsche and Achebe at first glance seem to have little in common--one is a nineteenth-century German philosopher...
- Chinua Achebe & Politics of Art; The Novelist's Tales From A World Turned...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Charles Trueheart February 16, 1988 700+ words
The writer's block that for 20 years has kept Chinua Achebe from producing a novel was not the work of the usual inner demons or fickle muse. It was, he says, the effect of something more...
