Emerging Perspectives on Chinua Achebe, Volume 1Ernest Emenyo̲nu Chinua Achebe, a literary icon of the 20th century, is widely regarded as Africa's best novelist to date, and one of the world's greatest. The essays in this book provide global perspectives of Achebe as an artist with a proper sense of history and an imaginative writer with an inviolable sense of cultural mission and political commitment. Omenka is the first of a two volume celebration of this modern African literary tradition, which owes much of its origin to Achebe's landmark classic novel, Things Fall Apart, the most widely read African novel. |
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Page 87
... living relatives have performed the appropriate funeral rites ; it is these rites that initiate the dead into the company of the powerful ancestors . Such ancestors take an active interest in the welfare of the living members of their ...
... living relatives have performed the appropriate funeral rites ; it is these rites that initiate the dead into the company of the powerful ancestors . Such ancestors take an active interest in the welfare of the living members of their ...
Page 407
... living . He observes that the living also passed through the same nervous and mental torture and suffered hunger and deprivation as the dead but because they are now alive they have " the choice of a dozen ways to rehabilitate ...
... living . He observes that the living also passed through the same nervous and mental torture and suffered hunger and deprivation as the dead but because they are now alive they have " the choice of a dozen ways to rehabilitate ...
Page 408
... living . Achebe is noted for his very strong criticism of and repugnance to some or- thodox practices . In " Remembrance Day ” , he condemns the cosmetic remembrance days set aside by the military to honour their dead colleagues . The ...
... living . Achebe is noted for his very strong criticism of and repugnance to some or- thodox practices . In " Remembrance Day ” , he condemns the cosmetic remembrance days set aside by the military to honour their dead colleagues . The ...
Contents
Chapter | 16 |
Chapter 2 | 25 |
Critical Perspectives on Short Stories | 33 |
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Achebe's Things Fall achieve African Literature analysis Anthills Arrow Arrow of God Beatrice become British characters Chief Priest child Chinua Achebe Chris Christian Cited Achebe civilization clan Clara Commissioner conversation conversational analysis critical daughter death deity discourse Ekwefi elders essay example Ezeulu Ezinma father female fiction forces Heinemann hero human Ibadan Idemili identity ideology Igbo cosmology Igbo culture Igbo language Igbo society Ikem Ikemefuna individual irony Joyce Cary killing Lagos language literary living London Longer at Ease male masculinity Mister Johnson mother Nanga narrative narrator nation natives Niger Nigeria Nigerian Literature novel Nwoye Obi's Obierika Odili Oduche Ogbanje Ogbuefi Okonkwo Omenuko Onitsha political portrayed proverbs reader relationship rhetoric role shows silence social speech speech act spirit story tells tion Tortoise traditional tragedy tragic Uchendu Umuaro Umuofia Unoka village voice wife wives woman women words writing yams