Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History by Falola, Toyin
Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History by Falola, Toyin

Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History

An imaginative, narratological reading of Chinua Achebe's novels, stories, poetry, and essays through a literary and historical...
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Author: Toyin Falola
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Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History by Falola, Toyin

Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History

$155.78
Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History by Falola, Toyin

Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History

$155.78
Author: Toyin Falola
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
An imaginative, narratological reading of Chinua Achebe's novels, stories, poetry, and essays through a literary and historical framework.

Toyin Falola analyzes fictional and historical cartographies of Africa in Achebe's literary works to offer a critical representation of Africa's present and future. In particular, he focuses on the historical valuation of a full range of the writer's works - novels including Things Fall Apart, but also short stories, poems, and essays - as important materials that have contributed to the political events in Nigeria and, by extension, Africa.

The raw creativity found in Achebe's stories and his ability to tell the Nigerian story - precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial - have endeared him to many, including readers and those critical of him and his works. Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and Historyanalyzes all of the writer's works, dwelling on the Nigerian political context upon which many, if not all, of his narratives lie. As a result, it examines methodologies of narration and ideologies that allow his works to resonate with the imagination of Africa.

Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 11/28/2024
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9798765118467

About the Author

Toyin Falola is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. His publications include Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Afrobeat, Rebellion, and Philosophy (with Adeshina Afolayan; Bloomsbury, 2022), Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation (with Bola Dauda; Bloomsbury, 2021), Understanding Modern Nigeria: Ethnicity, Democracy, and Development (2021), and Nigerian Political Modernity and Postcolonial Predicaments (2016).

Falola has served as the General Secretary of the Historical Society of Nigeria, the President of the African Studies Association, Vice-President of UNESCO Slave Route Project, and the Kluge Chair of the Countries of the South, Library of Congress. He is a member of the Scholars' Council, Kluge Center, the Library of Congress. He has received over 30 lifetime career awards and 14 honorary doctorates.
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