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1. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2008/05/26Chinua Achebe and the Great African Novel - The New Yorker

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   May 19, 2008 · Achebe at home in Annandale-on-Hudson. Photograph by Steve Pyke. In a myth told by the Igbo people of Nigeria, men once decided to send a messenger to ask Chuku, the supreme god, if the dead could ...

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     Chinua Achebe and the great African novel. By Ruth Franklin....

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     Achebe: Analysis of Heart of Darkness | An Image of Africa | Postcolonialism

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     An Evening with Chinua Achebe

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3. www.bbc.com › culture › articleWas Chinua Achebe Africa’s most influential author? - BBC

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   Chinua Achebe, who died last year, left more than books as his legacy. He inspired some of today’s most talented writers, argues Jane Ciabattari. When the legendary Nigerian novelist Chinua ...

4. theconversation.com › things-fall-apart-chinuaThings Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe and the languages of African ...

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   Nov 28, 2018 · Achebe advocated a “both” rather than an “either/or” approach in his 1965 essay The African Writer and the English Language. He argued that the African writer, in “fashioning out an ...

5. www.npr.org › 2013/03/22 › 175043738Remembering Chinua Achebe, Who Defended Africa To The World

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   Mar 22, 2013 · It told the story of a tragic hero, Okonkwo, and through him the negative influence of British colonialism on the Igbo people of Nigeria set in the late 19th century. Achebe was known as the voice ...

6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › An_Image_of_AfricaAn Image of Africa - Wikipedia

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   An Image of Africa. " An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness " is the published and amended version of the second Chancellor's Lecture given by Nigerian writer and academic Chinua Achebe at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in February 1975. The essay was included in his 1988 collection, Hopes and Impediments.

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7. link.springer.com › chapter › 10An Adequate Revolution: Achebe Writes Africa Anew

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   Jun 4, 2017 · In “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” (), which has had the greatest impact of any Achebe essay (see Wise 115–16), the author shows the connection between, on the one hand, the habitual European view of Africans as lacking a human status equal to their own, and, on the other, the ways in which the language barrier prevented Europeans from making more truthful ...

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   How did Achebe contribute to African literature?

   • Achebe’s seminal contribution not only to African, English, and world literatures, but also to a generational shift in African and international perceptions of Africa, is tied to his multifaceted use and representation of language (see Gikandi, Foreword; “Invention”).

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   What is Achebe's contribution to African history?

   • Part of the book series: African Histories and Modernities ( (AHAM)) Achebe’s seminal contribution not only to African, English, and world literature, but also to a generational shift in African and international perceptions of Africa, is tied to his multifaceted use and representation of language.

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   Did Achebe see himself as an African?

   • Achebe, in an essay called “African Literature as Restoration of Celebration,” has written, “I did not see myself as an African to begin with. . . . The white man was good and reasonable and intelligent and courageous. The savages arrayed against him were sinister and stupid or, at the most, cunning. I hated their guts.”

   Chinua Achebe and the Great African Novel - The New Yorker

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   Why is Achebe so important?

   • In the course of a writing life that has included five novels, collections of short stories and poetry, and numerous essays and lectures, Achebe has consistently argued for the right of Africans to tell their own story in their own way, and has attacked the representations of European writers.

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   Does Achebe believe in 'universality' in African fiction?

   • Achebe has been fiercely critical of those who search for “universality” in African fiction, arguing that such a standard is never applied to Western fiction. But there is something reductive about Achebe’s insistence on defining writers by their ethnicity.

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   What does Achebe say about language?

   • In the essay, Achebe writes of an American newspaper article that, while using the word “language” to refer to Western languages like Spanish and Italian, uses the word “dialects” to refer to the languages of India and Nigeria. He contends that “this is quite comparable to Conrad withholding of language from his rudimentary souls.

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9. onlinelibrary.wiley.com › doi › fullBetween Realism and Modernism: Chinua Achebe and the Making ...

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   Oct 31, 2019 · It is not accidental, then, that each of Achebe's first three novels was intended to displace the assumptions of a key colonial text on Africa: Things Fall Apart would be a reversal of the recursive temporality and hermeneutic delirium in Conrad's Heart of Darkness; No Longer at Ease would challenge the conception of the African as a passive agent in the works of Graham Greene and other late ...