Emerging Perspectives on Chinua Achebe, Volume 1Ernest Emenyo̲nu Africa World Press, 2004 - 475 pages 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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Contents
Chapter | 16 |
Chapter 2 | 25 |
Chapter 3 | 35 |
Chapter 4 | 49 |
Chapter 5 | 67 |
Chapter 6 | 77 |
Chapter 7 | 85 |
Chapter 8 | 97 |
Chapter 21 | 277 |
Chapter 22 | 285 |
Chapter 23 | 293 |
Chapter 24 | 301 |
The Role of Chinua Achebe in Anthills of the Savannah | 319 |
Chapter 26 | 333 |
Chapter 27 | 343 |
Chapter 28 | 353 |
Chapter 9 | 107 |
Chapter 10 | 121 |
Chapter 11 | 153 |
Chapter 12 | 167 |
Chapter 13 | 173 |
Chapter 14 | 181 |
Chapter 15 | 195 |
Chapter 17 | 217 |
Chapter 18 | 229 |
Chapter 19 | 247 |
Chapter 20 | 265 |
Chapter 29 | 359 |
Chapter 30 | 367 |
Chapter 31 | 383 |
Chapter 32 | 403 |
Chapter 33 | 415 |
Chapter 34 | 427 |
Chapter 35 | 441 |
Chapter 36 | 451 |
Notes on Contributors | 463 |
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