The Fiction of Chinua Achebe

by Morrison, Jago

• ISBN13: 9781403986719
• ISBN10: 1403986711
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Chinua Achebe has acquired a virtually unchallenged reputation as the 'Godfather' of modern African writing. This Reader's Guide enables students to navigate the bewildering field of Achebe criticism, setting out the key areas of critical debate, the most influential alternative approaches to his work and the controversies that have so often surrounded it. The Guide examines Achebe's key novels - with the main focus on Things Fall Apart - and also discusses his less well-known short fiction.

Author Biography

JAGO MORRISON is Head of English at the University of Chichester, UK. He has published widely on post-war fiction in English, and is the author of Contemporary Fiction (Routledge, 2003) and co-editor of Scandalous Fictions: The Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Things Fall Apart (1958): Challenging the Canon	p. 7
Things Fall Apart (1958): The Novel and Nigeria	p. 40
No Longer at Ease (1960)	p. 69
Arrow of God (1964)	p. 93
A Man of the People (1966) and Girls at War (1972)	p. 113
Anthills of the Savannah (1987)	p. 137
Conclusion	p. 158
Notes	p. 163
Select bibliography	p. 172
Index	p. 179
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