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Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart'From the Boundaries of Storytelling to the History of a People

Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart': From the Boundaries of Storytelling to... [Ikejimba-from the boundaries of storytelling to the history of a people. We are celebrating THINGS FALL APART at 60. This chapter celebrates literature and books. After all, Chinua Achebe remarked that nothing is more important to man than literature. The author presents thoughts of an elder (onye okenya) who has traveled the world, loved books, and lived long enough to know that todo cambia (everything changes) in the words of Argentinian singer Mercedes Sosa. Only literature and art endure to affirm that we live, that we are. The writer demonstrates this with abundant references to literary works from many peoples in many languages; references to art; references to rivers of history; specific observations on THINGS FALL APART, time, mortality, and memory. The chapter also includes stories of the writer’s friendship with Chinua Achebe.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart'From the Boundaries of Storytelling to the History of a People

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series
Editors: Baloubi, Désiré; Pinkston, Christina R.
Burness, Don
Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart' — Dec 10, 2020
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-50796-1
Pages
11 –20
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-50797-8_2
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Abstract

[Ikejimba-from the boundaries of storytelling to the history of a people. We are celebrating THINGS FALL APART at 60. This chapter celebrates literature and books. After all, Chinua Achebe remarked that nothing is more important to man than literature. The author presents thoughts of an elder (onye okenya) who has traveled the world, loved books, and lived long enough to know that todo cambia (everything changes) in the words of Argentinian singer Mercedes Sosa. Only literature and art endure to affirm that we live, that we are. The writer demonstrates this with abundant references to literary works from many peoples in many languages; references to art; references to rivers of history; specific observations on THINGS FALL APART, time, mortality, and memory. The chapter also includes stories of the writer’s friendship with Chinua Achebe.]

Published: Dec 10, 2020

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