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From:Literature of Developing Nations for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literature of Developing Nations (Vol. 1. )When Chinua Achebe published Anthills of the Savannah in 1987, it was his first new novel in more than twenty years. During that time, Nigeria had been governed by a succession of corrupt and greedy rulers, and Achebe...
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From: CLA Journal[(essay date June 1994) In the following essay, Robson examines various types of English that appear in Anthills of the Savannah, demonstrating how each reflects differences in education, social status, and cultural...
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From: Ariel[(essay date October 1993 ) In the following essay, Kanaganayakam compares and contrasts Achebe's narrative technique in Anthills of the Savannah to that of his earlier works.] Twenty-one years after the publication of...
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From: Achebe and the Politics of Representation: Form Against Itself, from Colonial Conquest and Occupation to Post-Independence Disillusionment[(essay date 2001) In the following excerpt, Ogede discusses Achebe's short stories as individual portraits intended to reflect the larger sociopolitical context of modern Nigeria.] Like many other creative writers...
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From: Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society[(essay date December 2008) In the following essay, Kehinde discusses three novels focusing on the frustrated expectations for democratic rule in post-independence Nigeria: Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah (1987),...
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From:Literature of Developing Nations for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literature of Developing Nations (Vol. 1. )Many critics and readers of Anthills of the Savannah are left with a sense of hopelessness at the end of the novel. Three of the novel's four main characters have died senseless deaths, and the country is left in the...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Chinua Achebe established his reputation with Things Fall Apart, one of the first novels to be published in post-independence Africa. It was admired for many reasons, notably the tragic profundity of its theme and the...
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From: Crisis and Creativity in the New Literature in English[(essay date 1988) In the following essay, originally presented at the XIth Annual Conference on Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies in German-speaking Countries in June 1988, Swann comments on the relationship...
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From: Chinua Achebe: New Perspectives[(essay date 1991) In the following excerpt, Ojinmah explores Achebe's political consciousness and the way he addresses Nigeria's struggle to achieve democracy in his short fiction and poetry.] The Still Birth of a...
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From: Achebe, Head, Marechera: On Power and Change in Africa[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Gagiano defends the argument that Achebe's work is more revolutionary than is generally believed.] A deep-seated need to alter things Chinua Achebe, Morning For an author...
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From: Children's Literature Association Quarterly[(essay date winter 1997-8) In the following essay, Dow reviews how Achebe's Chike and the River fits within his established philosophies with regard to his Igbo heritage and the effects of British colonialism upon...
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From: Ariel[(essay date July/October 2005) In the following essay, Diala suggests that the mythical depiction of women in Anthills of the Savannah, while intended as a countermeasure against imperialist control, actually denies the...
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From: Telling Stories: Postcolonial Short Fiction in English[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Séverac contends that Achebe's writings must be read together, as a body of work, to yield their full sociopolitical importance.] Achebe is a writer of few words. While some...
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From: A Spirit of Dialogue: Incarnations of Ọgbañje, the Born-to-Die, in African American Literature[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Okonkwo argues that there are significant links between postcolonial African fiction and contemporary African American fiction, as evidenced in Achebe's Things Fall Apart.]...
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From: The NationIn "Civil Peace," a story he wrote seventeen years ago, Chinua Achebe noted how the violence of civil war inevitably outlives the actual conflict, and barely pausing for breath, extends itself into peacetime. As a band...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Chinua Achebe established himself as an important African writer with his first novel, Things Fall Apart, still his most widely known and acclaimed work. Debunking many of the myths about the colonial period in his...
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From: The Malahat Review[(interview date January 1994) Wachtel is a writer and radio personality who hosts CBC Radio's Sunday literary program "Writers & Company." In the following interview, originally broadcast in January, 1994, Achebe...
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From: The Literary Criterion[(essay date 1988) A South African-born educator, Ravenscroft has written extensively on Achebe and Nigerian literature. He identifies as his major concern the effects of colonialism on the Third World. In the following...
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From: Discourse and Human Rights Violations[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Gagiano emphasizes the way fiction can reshape the national culture of South Africa, using Red Dust and five other South African novels as examples.] Apartheid as a compelling...
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From: Journal of Modern Literature[(essay date winter 2006) In the following essay, Erritouni studies Achebe's rendering of the tensions that arise within the African nation-state due to the diversity of intention and perspective among its new rulers....