Amechi Nicholas Akwanya

Care and Crisis in Chinua Achebe's Novels (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe's novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary works are studied and discussed within the discipline of literary studies and criticism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040017753
• Artikelnr.: 70019322

Autorenporträt

Amechi Nicholas Akwanya retired as a Professor of English & Literary Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka in December 2022, and moved to Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike as a Contract Professor. He is a Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Letters (FNAL). Besides his numerous journal and book articles, he also has many books on theoretical and practical questions of literary studies and language. Of these, the most recent are Literature and Aspects of Causality and Literary Criticism: From Formal to Questions of Method, both by the University of Nigeria Press. He is the author of Orimili (a novel, Heinemann, 1991 at http://www.geocities.com/africanwriters/ AuthorsA.html), and several poetry collections. He gave the 17th Inaugural Lecture of the University of Nigeria, entitled: English Language Learning in Nigeria: In Search of an Enabling Principle (Nsukka, 2007), and the 4th Professorial Valedictory Lecture of the University entitled No Longer a Tribe: Chinua Achebe, the Novel, and Optimistic Postcoloniality (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Renewed Concerns
2. Chinua Achebe's Major Literary Productions
3. Rootedness: The Father's Field of Control
4. A New Language's Reference Index
5. Resemblances, Refigurations
6. Involvement under the Ethic of Care
7. Exercise of Ethical Being
8. Postscript: Optimistic Postcoloniality