Overview
- Analyses all five of Achebe's novels
- Examines Achebe not only from a literary perspective, but also in linguistic and political terms
- Draws on the commentaries of scholars and writers such as Bhabha, Fanon, Coetzee and Rushdie
Part of the book series: African Histories and Modernities (AHAM)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“This first major study since Achebe’s death in 2013 re-envisions his six-decade career through the twin lenses of language and narration. Thomas Jay Lynn’s illuminating long perspective, which integrates discussion of Achebe’s fiction and nonfiction, offers new insights into Africa’s most iconic writer and the postcolonial politics of narration. Other distinguishing features include welcome chapters on the much-anthologized short story ‘Civil Peace’ and on cross-cultural strategies for teaching Achebe’s fiction. Comprehensive, lucid, and accessible, Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Narration: Envisioning Language will prove indispensable to scholars, teachers, and students alike.” (Dr Peter Blair, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Chester, UK)
“This welcome study reminds readers that Africa’s most famous novelist has been central to the continent’s literary preoccupations: corrupt politicians and resistant tricksters, colonizing language and oral creativity, subterranean incivility and carnivalesque release. Throughout, Lynn shows the dangers of too easily overlooking the tense Janus-like gaze of this deceptively pellucid author, who always sees the complexity at the heart of everything.” (Professor John C. Hawley, Santa Clara University, USA)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Narration
Book Subtitle: Envisioning Language
Authors: Thomas Jay Lynn
Series Title: African Histories and Modernities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51331-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51330-0Published: 28 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84622-4Published: 01 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51331-7Published: 18 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-5773
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5781
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 176
Topics: African Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature