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Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Narration

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51331-7

ISBN: 978-3-319-51330-0

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jun 4, 2017

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Introduction

Lynn, Thomas Jay

Pages: 1 –22

[Achebe’s own life merits examination as part of an analysis of language and politics in his narratives because he personally navigated, competing politically volatile structures of power. He demonstrated along the way a combination of respect and defiance toward tradition and authority that his...
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An Adequate Revolution: Achebe Writes Africa Anew

Lynn, Thomas Jay

Pages: 23 –40

[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. In Things Fall Apart the words of the Igbo characters comprise...
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Of Flight, Fraud, and Freedom: Achebe’s Political Tricksters

Lynn, Thomas Jay

Pages: 41 –76

[The trickster’s role in West African and other postcolonial literatures exemplifies the integration of traditional storytelling elements to affirm a culture’s values without severing those values from European influences. Modern fictional tricksters, including Achebe’s, play a role in recovering...
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Language and Ambivalence in Achebe’s Writing

Lynn, Thomas Jay

Pages: 77 –95

[Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and others have contributed compelling arguments to the debate over the appropriate language of African literature, but the present chapter, while mindful of these arguments, does not seek to adjudicate between them. Rather, it delineates how this debate was, in...
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Language and the Power of Subordination: Achebe’s Integration of Nigerian Pidgin

Lynn, Thomas Jay

Pages: 97 –110

[Achebe uses Nigerian Pidgin English in his fiction to focus the identity of a range of characters and to give their discourse a down-to-earth dimension. As a non-elite discourse, moreover, Pidgin underscores cultural and class tensions. In particular, it draws attention to the inequities that...
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Beyond Black and White: British Identity in Achebe’s Fiction

Lynn, Thomas Jay

Pages: 111 –125

[A glance at Achebe’s early novels may lead one to surmise that he approaches the English missionaries and colonial administrators as ruthless and bigoted interlopers who deceive and coerce Africans into submission. However, later works clearly demonstrate that Achebe does not reflexively...
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Catastrophe, Aftermath, Amnesia: Chinua Achebe’s “Civil Peace”

Lynn, Thomas Jay

Pages: 127 –142

[Achebe’s short story “Civil Peace” depicts a family and community’s response to the devastation wrought by war, specifically the Nigerian Civil War. Although the tale by no means abandons hope for either the Iwegbu family or its community, it wryly suggests that civil peace is the mirror image...
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Unfolding Dialogue: Teaching Achebe’s Fiction

Lynn, Thomas Jay

Pages: 143 –165

[Pedagogical methods rooted and implemented in a mode of domination, reflecting, indeed, colonial mentalities, contradict the affirmation of equality and dignity projected in global literatures, including the work of Achebe. His writings teach us how to teach him, guiding instructors to reach...
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Conclusion: The Ends of Narration

Lynn, Thomas Jay

Pages: 167 –170

[How Chinua Achebe arrived at his particular narrative methods that draw on oral tradition in prose fiction partly involves the mystery of artistic inspiration. What is clear, though, is that he recognized that a powerful resource was available to him in the implementation of a new kind of novel...
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Erratum to: Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Narration

Lynn, Thomas Jay

Pages: E1 –E1

[Erratum to: T.J. Lynn, Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Narration, African Histories and Modernities, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51331-7]

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