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Title

Chinua Achebe's legacy : illuminations from Africa / James Ogude (ed.).

Publication

Pretoria, South Africa : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2015.

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Additional Authors

Ogude, James

Description

x, 165 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Chinua Achebe's novels and essays have always drawn our attention to issues of memory, the story, history and our own obligation to history as Africans. Achebe constantly goes back to the authority of narrative - the story; and as the subsequent generations of African writers like Chimamanda Adichie keep returning to, to celebrate Africa's many stories, its moments of failure and triumph. Achebe, more than any other writer on this continent, has inspired many, and hopefully the African story tellers of the coming centuries, irrespective of their location will continue to be inspired by him. This collection of essays is an enduring tribute to this rich legacy of Achebe.

Subject

• Achebe, Chinua > Criticism and interpretation
• Achebe, Chinua

Genre/Form

• Essays
• Essays.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Why Celebrate Chinua Achebe's Legacy? / James Ogude -- Achebe, Art and Critical Consciousness : Notes From/For South Africa / Bhekizizwe Peterson -- Postcolonial Modernity and Normalisation : Reading Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God in the Present Tense / Harry Garuba -- There was a Country : Achebe's Last Salute / Garnette Oluoch-Olunya -- Chinua Achebe's The Education of a British-Protected Child and Africa Cosmopolitanism / Ronit Frenkel -- Late Achebe : Biafra as Literary Genealogy / Christopher Ouma -- References, Traditions, Continuities : Story-telling and Memory in Okey Ndibe's Arrows of Rain / Dina Ligaga -- Nationalism in Dialogue : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Adaobi Tricia Nwaubahi in Conversation with Chinua Achebe's Characters / Unifier Dyer -- Unoka's, Okonkwo's and Ezeulu's Grandsons in Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go and Dinaw Mengestu's How to Read the Air / Grace Musila -- Things Fall Apart On Screen : Re-thinking Closure in Achebe's Narrative / Innocent Ebere Uwah -- Chinua Achebe : The Paradox of Exile Beyond the Tropes of Migrancy / Senayon Olaoluwa -- Revisiting the African Archive : Chinua Achebe, Sol Plaatje and the Re-making of African History / James Ogude -- Tribute 1. The incredible resonance of Achebe's work / Veronique Tadjo -- Tribute 2. Chinua Achebe : A central influence on my writing / Susan Nalugwa Kiguli -- Tribute 3. Chinua Achebe as literary influence : a writer's perspective / Nthikeng Mohlele.

ISBN

• 9780798304900
• 0798304901

OCLC

937451284

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library