Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African World: Between Fiction, Fact, and Historical Representation

Chima J. Korieh; Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku

doi:10.5771/9781793652706

Summary

Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African World: Between Fiction, Fact, and Historical Representation explores Chinua Achebe’s literary works and how they communicated the Igbo-African world to readers. Engaging in the politics of representation, Achebe sought to demystify deterministic views of race and cultural ethnocentrism. While his books and commentaries have been very influential in shaping a unique and multifaceted view of the African world, some scholars have challenged Achebe’s representations of historical reality. Through in-depth analyses of his writing, contributors examine the interpretations Achebe imposed on African culture and history in his texts. The chapters cover Achebe’s engagement with critical issues like historical representation, gender relations, and indigenous political institutions in a changing society. Throughout, contributors present new ways for understanding Achebe's literary works and show how his work draws from African historical reality and identity while challenging Western epistemological hegemony.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-5269-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-5270-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 312
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
Introduction‌‌ No access Pages 1 - 16
1. Causality in Selected Cultural Novels by Chinua Achebe No access
2. (Re)Discovering the Igbo Oral Tradition in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the No access
3. Symbols and Imageries in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart No access
4. Igbo Communal Ethos No access
5. Things Fall Apart and Igbo Leadership No access
6. Achebe and the Pedagogy of Indigenous Knowledge Systems No access
1. Chinua Achebe’s “‘Chi’ in Igbo Cosmology” No access
2. Discourse, Imagination, and Models of Resistance No access
3. The Collision of Asymmetric Civilizations No access
4. (Re)Memorising Igbo Traditions in Achebe’s Arrow of God No access
1. Telling Africa’s Story No access
2. Narrativizing History No access
3. Achebeism and the Nigerian Leadership Problem No access
4. Chinua Achebe as a Voice of Reason on the Nigerian Crisis No access
5. Chinua Achebe and the National Question No access
Index No access Pages 305 - 308
About the Contributors No access Pages 309 - 312