"The Rising of the Moon puts the radical changes in current political dialogue in Ireland into the context of the whole of the 20th century. Exploring the dynamics of power and language, Ella O'Dwyer compares the literature of Beckett, Conrad and Chinua Achebe, amongst others, t…
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe is widely regarded as the most important of the numerous African novelists who gained global attention in the second half of the 20th century. Achebe is certainly the African writer best known in the West, and his first novel, Things Fall Apart, is …
"Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe is widely regarded as the most important of the numerous African novelists who gained global attention in the second half of the 20th century. Achebe is certainly the African writer best known in the West, and his first novel, Things Fall Apart, is…
Though best known as a novelist, Achebe is also a critic, activist, and spokesman for African culture. This reference is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to his life and writings. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries. Some of these are substantive …
Masquerade, engagement, and skepticism : Richard Burton -- Commitment and loss : T.E. Lawrence -- The Islamic Catholicism of Louis Massignon -- Independence and ambivalence : Chinua Achebe and two African contemporaries -- Reflection, mystery, and violence : Orhan Pamuk
Masquerade, engagement, and skepticism : Richard Burton -- Commitment and loss : T. E. Lawrence -- The Islamic Catholicism of Louis Massignon -- Independence and ambivalence : Chinua Achebe and two African contemporaries -- Reflection, mystery, and violence : Orhan Pamuk
Richard Burton. T. E. Lawrence. Louis Massignon. Chinua Achebe. Orhan Pamuk. The remarkable quintet whose stories make up Jerrold Seigel's Between Cultures are all people who, without ever seeking to exit from the ways of life into which they had been born, devoted themselves to…
In a study of multicultural literature, the dominance of ignorance and prejudice in propagating and perpetuating oppression and marginalization of others is all too common, as is the denial or suppression of the identity of decolonized peoples. We even see the rewriting of histo…
Sociolinguists often research the development of language attitudes and the state of language within speech communities. Individual speakers reflect the status of their L1 language in both speaking and writing (Wa Thiong'o 1986, Showalter 2001), and the idea that writing can be …
In this thesis I argue that the development of the Nigerian novel in the 1950's created an optimistic space within which writers were able to reassert repressed cultural identities, becoming significant participants in the effort to develop viable post-colonial cultural identiti…