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Description for Chinua Achebe
Paperback. A major new study of Africa's most important writer, offering a comprehensive reassessment of Achebe's work as a novelist, broadcaster and political thinker Series Editor(s): Thieme, John. Series: Contemporary World Writers. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa's foremost writer. In this major new study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his work as an author, broadcaster, editor and political thinker. With new, historically contextualised readings of all of his major works, this is the first study to view Achebe's oeuvre in its entirety, from Things Fall Apart and the early novels, through the revolutionary Ahiara Declaration - previously attributed to Emeka Ojukwu - to the revealing final works The Education of a British Educated Child and There Was a Country. Contesting previous interpretations which ... Read more
Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa's foremost writer. In this major new study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his work as an author, broadcaster, editor and political thinker. With new, historically contextualised readings of all of his major works, this is the first study to view Achebe's oeuvre in its entirety, from Things Fall Apart and the early novels, through the revolutionary Ahiara Declaration - previously attributed to Emeka Ojukwu - to the revealing final works The Education of a British Educated Child and There Was a Country. Contesting previous interpretations which ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Contemporary World Writers
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781526116796
SKU
V9781526116796
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About Jago Morrison
Jago Morrison is Senior Lecturer in English at Brunel University -- .
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