This is a revised edition of Chinua Achebe (1980), a critical study of the most widely known African writer, which now incorporates a discussion of his most recent work, including his major new novel, Anthills of the Savannah. The study examines the context in which he writes - that complex intermingling of his own Igbo society and European colonialism - before undertaking a critical discussion of the five main novels, his poetry and short stories. Throughout, there is an underlying concern with Achebe's system of values and the pressure on them through periods of colonialism, independence, political disillusionment and civil war. The author, finally, seeks to relate Achebe's career to the role of the African writer, a subject on which the novelist has written at length.

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University of Lancaster, UK

David Carroll

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DAVID CARROLL

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Book Title: Chinua Achebe
Book Subtitle: Novelist, Poet, Critic
Authors: David Carroll
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375215
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1990
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-49080-8Published: 15 May 1990
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37521-5Published: 15 May 1990
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: X, 204
Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature

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