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Remembering a legend : Chinua Achebe /

Remembering a Legend: Chinua Achebe recaptures for the literary world the inimitable legacies of Chinua Achebe (1930-2013), Africa's leading novelist and literary philosopher of the 20th century. It addresses the questions of Achebe's role in establishing the African art of the novel, his...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Emenyo̲nu, Ernest, 1939- (Autor), Nnolim, Charles E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York [New York] ; Lagos [Nigeria] ; London [England] : African Heritage Press, 2014.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Chinua Achebe: The Passing of a Comet; Chinua Achebe: A re-assessment; Achebe's Things Fall Apart: An Igbo National Epic; Things Fall Apart (1958) at 50: Chinua Achebe's 'Mustard Seed' *; The Colonial Encounter in the African Novel: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart; Characterization and Social Vision in Achebe's Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease: a study of the Iconoclast and the stigmatized 'other'; Characterization in The Nigerian Novel: Ezeulu in Arrow of God; Technique and Meaning in Achebe's Arrow Of God.
  • The Form and Function of the Folk Tradition in Achebe's NovelsThe Socialist Vision in the Nigerian Novel: Chinua Achebe's The Anthills of the Savannah and Festus Iyayi's Heroes; Selection and Validation of Oral Materials for Children's Literature: Artistic Resources in Chinua Achebe's Fiction for Children; (Re) Inventing the Past for the Present: Symbolism in Chinua Achebe's How the Leopard Got His Claws; The Short Story as a Genre, with Notes on Achebe's "The Madman."
  • Chinua Achebe and the Problematics of Writing in Indigenous Nigerian Languages: Towards the Resolution of the Igbo Language PredicamentAchebe: Accountable to Our Society
  • An Interview; Dimensions of Productivity in the Poetry of Chinua Achebe; There Was a Country: Chinua Achebe's Exit Testimony to Nigeria; Back cover.