Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays, Paperback - Chinua Achebe

Reducere. One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our soc...

Henry Lawson, V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer and Chinua Achebe are respectively Australian, Caribbean, South African and Nigerian, yet they all wri...

This study casts back over Achebe's writing career to assess his considerable contribution to postcolonial writing and criticism, including his Edi...

This novel about Nigeria prophesied the 1983 coup.

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Headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu is worshipped by six villages, but finds his authority under threat. He is prepared to do anything to lead h...

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Gives us a portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its 'middle ground', interrogating both the author's happy memories of reading...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Kalu OgbaaIllustration(s): 13 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of page...

Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. I...

An idealistic young man educated in Britain, Obi returns home to Nigeria for a job in the civil service, but finds himself seduced by backhanders a...

From the renowned author of The African Trilogy, a political satire about an unnamed African country navigating a path between violence and corrupt...

Reducere. A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, regarded as one of literatur...

The defining experience of author's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. A marriage of history, remembrance, poetry and ...

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'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.'According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essa...

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The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius...

In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written sinc...

Publisher: Ariadne PressAuthor(s): Adolf LoosTranslator: Michael MitchellNumber of pages: 204Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 217 x 140 x 13Cover ...

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Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This collection of his diverse essays includes appreci...

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First English-language anthology of one of Latin America's pre-eminent Marxist writersPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Adolfo GillyNumber of pages:...

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Daiches aims to define Judaism in relation to philosophy, to explain Kant's philosophy through the superiority of halakhah, defend a biblically bas...

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In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collecti...

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