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| chinua achebe chike's school days: Emerging Perspectives on Chinua Achebe Ernest Emenyo̲nu, Iniobong I. Uko, 2004 Chinua Achebe's influence on contemporary African literature is as much in evidence in his art of the novel as his theory of African literature and literary criticism. ISINKA (Igbo term for artistic purpose') establishes Achebe's legacy as a literary theorist and critic. In these essays scholars from around the globe assess and establish how much Achebe's extra-fictional ideas about African literature and literature in general are justified in his own creative works.' |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: The Chinua Achebe Encyclopedia M. Keith Booker, 2003-12-30 Several hundred A-Z entries cover Achebe's major works, important characters and settings, key concepts and issues, and more. Though best known as a novelist, Achebe is also a critic, activist, and spokesman for African culture. This reference is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to his life and writings. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries. Some of these are substantive summary discussions of Achebe's major works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Entries are written by expert contributors and close with brief bibliographies. The volume also provides a general bibliography and chronology. Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe is widely regarded as the most important of the numerous African novelists who gained global attention in the second half of the 20th century. Achebe is certainly the African writer best known in the West, and his first novel, Things Fall Apart, is a founding text of postcolonial African literature and regarded as one of the central works of world literature of the last 50 years. Though best known as a novelist, Achebe is also a critic, activist, and spokesman for African culture. This reference is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to his life and writings. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries. Some of these are substantive summary discussions of Achebe's major works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Other topics include all of his major fictional characters and settings, important concepts and issues central to his writings, historical persons, places, and events relevant to his works, and influential texts by other writers. Entries are written by expert contributors and close with brief bibliographies. The volume also provides a general bibliography and chronology. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Narration Thomas Jay Lynn, 2017-07-18 This book examines vital intersections of narration, linguistic innovation, and political insight that distinguish Chinua Achebe’s fiction as well as his non-fiction commentaries. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of these intersections: Achebe’s narrative response to Western authors who have written on Africa, his integration of Igbo folklore, the political implications of writing African literature in English, his use of Nigerian Pidgin, and the Nigerian Civil War. It also addresses the teaching of Achebe’s works. Achebe drew on diverse resources to offer searching psychological and political insights that contribute not only a decidedly African political viewpoint to the modern novel, but also a more inclusive narrative consciousness. Achebe’s adaptations of Igbo oral art are intrinsic to his writing’s political engagement because they assert the integrity and authority of the African voice in a global order defined by colonialism. This book reveals how his work has helped to restructure a global vision of Africa. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Chike and the River Chinua Achebe, 2011-08-09 The more Chike saw the ferry-boats the more he wanted to make the trip to Asaba. But where would he get the money? He did not know. Still, he hoped. Eleven-year-old Chike longs to cross the Niger River to the city of Asaba, but he doesn’t have the sixpence he needs to pay for the ferry ride. With the help of his friend S.M.O.G., he embarks on a series of adventures to help him get there. Along the way, he is exposed to a range of new experiences that are both thrilling and terrifying, from eating his first skewer of suya under the shade of a mango tree, to visiting the village magician who promises to double the money in his pocket. Once he finally makes it across the river, Chike realizes that life on the other side is far different from his expectations, and he must find the courage within him to make it home. Chike and the River is a magical tale of boundaries, bravery, and growth, by Chinua Achebe, one of the world’s most beloved and admired storytellers. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: The Fiction of Chinua Achebe Jago Morrison, 2009-07-23 Since the emergence of Things Fall Apart in 1958, Chinua Achebe has come to be regarded by many as the 'Godfather' of modern African writing. Over 150 full length studies of his work have been published, together with many hundreds of scholarly articles. This Reader's Guide enables students to navigate the rich and bewildering field of Achebe criticism, setting out the key areas of critical debate, the most influential alternative approaches to his work and the controversies that have so often surrounded it. The Guide examines Achebe's key novels - with the main focus on Things Fall Apart - and also discusses his less well-known short fiction. Including discussion of important Nigerian scholarship that is often inaccessible, this is an invaluable introduction to the work of one of Africa's most important and popular writers. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: The Sacrificial Egg Chinua Achebe, 1962 |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: They Also Write for Kids Suzanne Manizza Roszak, 2022-12-28 Outside the world of children’s literature studies, children’s books by authors of well-known texts “for adults” are often forgotten or marginalized. Although many adults today read contemporary children’s and young adult fiction for pleasure, others continue to see such texts as unsuitable for older audiences, and they are unlikely to cross-read children’s books that were themselves cross-written by authors like Chinua Achebe, Anita Desai, Joy Harjo, or Amy Tan. Meanwhile, these literary voices have produced politically vital works of children’s literature whose complex themes persist across boundaries of expected audience. These works form part of a larger body of activist writing “for children” that has long challenged preconceived notions about the seriousness of such books and ideas about who, in fact, should read them. They Also Write for Kids: Cross-Writing, Activism, and Children’s Literature seeks to draw these cross-writing projects together and bring them to the attention of readers. In doing so, this book invites readers to place children’s literature in conversation with works more typically understood as being for adult audiences, read multiethnic US literature alongside texts by global writers, consider children’s poetry and nonfiction as well as fiction, and read diachronically as well as cross-culturally. These ways of reading offer points of entry into a world of books that refuse to exclude young audiences in scrutinizing topics that range from US settler colonialism and linguistic prejudice to intersectional forms of gender inequality. The authors included here also employ an intricate array of writing strategies that challenge lingering stereotypes of children’s literature as artistically as well as intellectually simplistic. They subversively repurpose tropes and conventions from canonical children’s books; embrace an epistemology of children’s literature that emphasizes ambiguity and complexity; invite readers to participate in redefining concepts such as “civilization” and cultural belonging; engage in intricate acts of cross-cultural representation; and re-envision their own earlier works in new forms tailored explicitly to younger audiences. Too often disregarded by skeptical adults, these texts offer rich rewards to readers of all ages, and here they are brought to the fore. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Harold Bloom, 2010 Things Fall Apart, set in Nigeria about a century ago, is widely regarded as Chinua Achebe's masterpiece. Considered one of the most broadly read African novels, Achebe's work responded to the two-dimensional caricatures of Africans that often dominated Western literature. This invaluable new edition of the study guide contains a selection of the finest contemporary criticism of this classic novel. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Chinua Achebe Toyin Falola, 2024-10-17 An imaginative, narratological reading of Chinua Achebe's novels, stories, poetry, and essays through a literary and historical framework. Toyin Falola analyzes fictional and historical cartographies of Africa in Achebe's literary works to offer a critical representation of Africa's present and future. In particular, he focuses on the historical valuation of a full range of the writer's works – novels including Things Fall Apart, but also short stories, poems, and essays – as important materials that have contributed to the political events in Nigeria and, by extension, Africa. The raw creativity found in Achebe's stories and his ability to tell the Nigerian story – precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial – have endeared him to many, including readers and those critical of him and his works. Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History analyzes all of the writer's works, dwelling on the Nigerian political context upon which many, if not all, of his narratives lie. As a result, it examines methodologies of narration and ideologies that allow his works to resonate with the imagination of Africa. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Girls at War and Other Stories Chinua Achebe, 2010-04-20 Girls at War and Other Stories reveals the essence of life in Nigeria and traces twenty years in the literary career of one of the twentieth century's most acclaimed writers. In this collection of stories, which display an astonishing range of experience, Chinua Achebe takes us inside the heart and soul of a people whose pride and ideals must compete with the simple struggle to survive. Hailed by critics everywhere, Achebe's fiction re-creates with energy and authenticity the major issues of daily life in Africa. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Chinua Achebe Catherine Lynette Innes, 1992-03-26 Things fall Apart, is compared with Joyce Cary's Mister Johnson. Achebe's novel is seen as a more realistic portrayal of the society and culture of indigenous people of Nigeria. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Language Lessons Ruth Spack, 2008 In today’s linguistically diverse classrooms, it is essential for teachers to understand the needs of students who are acquiring English as an additional language. A firm knowledge of theoretical and practical issues must be paired with a deep understanding of the human side of language learning.Language Lessons: Stories for Teaching and Learning Englishis a short story anthology that offers valuable insight into the inner lives of language learners. A wide variety of linguistic backgrounds is represented in the collection, and the stories examine language learning issues over a broad range of time, highlighting cultural, political, and social realities that can shape the language learning experiences of children and adults. This volume can be used in a variety of education settings including undergraduate and graduate courses in TESOL, Literacy Studies, and Language Arts and faculty development workshops. Suggestions for guiding written responses to the material are given, and questions encourage readers to reflect on each story and to explore the multifaceted connections among stories. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Kindred Spirits Christopher N. Okonkwo, 2022-01-18 Winner—2022 College Language Association Book Prize Finalist—2024 African Literature Association's Best Scholarly Book Award Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe—author of Things Fall Apart, one of the towering works of twentieth-century fiction—is considered the father of modern African literature. The equally revered Toni Morrison, author of masterworks such as Beloved and one of only four Americans to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in the past half-century, acknowledged African literature’s and Achebe’s influence on her own work. Until now, however, there has been no book that focuses on and critically explores the rich connections between these two writers. In Kindred Spirits, Christopher Okonkwo offers the first comparative study of Morrison and Achebe. Surveying both writers’ oeuvres, Okonkwo examines significant relations between Achebe’s and Morrison’s personal backgrounds, career histories, artistic visions, and life philosophies, finding in them striking parallels. He then pairs a trilogy of novels by each author: Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God and Morrison’s Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise. Okonkwo closely analyzes these two sequences—through what he theorizes as villagism—as century-spanning village literature that looks to the local to reveal the universal. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Twentieth-century Short Story Explication , 1989 |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: The Rotarian , 1960-04 Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: The Education of a British-Protected Child Chinua Achebe, 2009-10-06 Achebe’s first new book in more than twenty years — a new collection of autobiographical essays from the world-renowned author of Things Fall Apart. Chinua Achebe’s characteristically measured and subtle voice is ever-present in these seventeen, beautifully nuanced pieces. The Education of a British-Protected Child offers a vivid portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria. Achebe recalls both his happy memories of reading novels in secondary school and the harsher truths of imperial rule. In “African-American Visitations,” he allows us to witness the terrifying nature of the African diaspora and what it means not to know “from whence he came.” Politics and history figure in “What is Nigeria to Me?,” “Africa’s Tarnished Name,” and “Politics of the Politicians of Language.” And Achebe’s extraordinary family comes into view in “My Dad and Me” and “My Daughters.” Charmingly personal, intellectually disciplined, and immensely wise, The Education of a British-Protected Child is an indispensable addition to the remarkable Achebe oeuvre. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Telling Stories Jacqueline Bardolph, André Viola, Jean-Pierre Durix, 2001 The present volume is a highly comprehensive assessment of the postcolonial short story since the thirty-six contributions cover most geographical areas concerned. Another important feature is that it deals not only with exclusive practitioners of the genre (Mansfield, Munro), but also with well-known novelists (Achebe, Armah, Atwood, Carey, Rushdie), so that stimulating comparisons are suggested between shorter and longer works by the same authors. In addition, the volume is of interest for the study of aspects of orality (dialect, dance rhythms, circularity and trickster figure for instance) and of the more or less conflictual relationships between the individual (character or implied author) and the community. Furthermore, the marginalized status of women emerges as another major theme, both as regards the past for white women settlers, or the present for urbanized characters, primarily in Africa and India. The reader will also have the rare pleasure of discovering Janice Kulik Keefer's Fox, her version of what she calls in her commentary displaced autobiography' or creative non-fiction. Lastly, an extensive bibliography on the postcolonial short story opens up further possibilities for research. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Education and literature Fernando Mota Pereira, 2020-01-01 “Educação e Literatura” busca mapear o significado da educação em textos literários de diferentes escritoras(es) ao redor do mundo. Fernanda Mota Pereira entrecruza linguística aplicada crítica com estudos pós-coloniais, estudos culturais e pedagogia crítica, para produzir esse estudo interdisciplinar inovador. Tendo vivido o processo educacional em dupla perspectiva – a universidade e a sala de aula do ensino médio -, a autora possui a escola como seu local de fala. Portanto, a obra, assim como a educação, tem o papel de refletir sobre as questões raciais, sociais e de gênero que permeiam essa área. Útil para docentes e discentes de língua estrangeira (não somente inglês), “Educação e Literatura” poderá ser capaz de nortear politicamente o processo de empoderamento proporcionado pelo aprendizado de uma língua, por meio da riqueza e complexidade dos textos literários sugeridos e explorados. O livro ainda analisa importantes obras contemporâneas, como “Push”, de Sapphire (que inspirou o filme “Preciosa – Uma história de esperança”), e “A cor púrpura”, de Alice Walker. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Teaching English to Young Learners Janice Bland, 2015-09-24 Aimed at student teachers, educators and practitioners, Teaching English Language to Young Learners outlines and explains the crucial issues, themes and scenarios relating to this area of teaching. Each chapter by a leading international scholar offers a thorough introduction to a central theme of English as a foreign language (EFL) with preteens, with clear presentation of the theoretical background and detailed references for further reading, providing access to the most recent scholarship. Exploring the essential issues critically and in-depth, including the disadvantages as well as advantages of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) with young learners, topics include: - task-based learning in the primary school; - storytelling; - drama; - technology; - vocabulary development; - intercultural understanding; - Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) scenarios; - assessment. Innovative and rapidly emerging topics are covered, such as immersion teaching, picturebooks in the EFL classroom and English with pre-primary children. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Achebe, Head, Marechera Annie Gagiano, 2000 Concentrating on issues of power and change, this analysis of texts by Chinua Achbe, Bessie Head and Dambudzi Marechera teases out each author's view of how colonialism affected Africa, the contributions of Africans to their malaise, and how many reacted in creative, progressive, pragmatic ways. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Twentieth-century Short Story Explication Warren S. Walker, 1993 Contains nearly 32,500 entries that provide a bibliography of interpretations that have appeared since 1900 of short stories published since 1800. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Chinua Achebe Kirsten Holst Petersen, Anna Rutherford, 1991 |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Chinua Achebe and the Igbo World View Anthonia Chinyere Ogbonaya, 1984 |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: The Development of Modern Igbo Fiction, 1857-1966 Ernest Emenyo̲nu, 1972 |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Chinua Achebe B. M. Okpu, 1984 |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Girls at War Chinua Achebe, 2012-02-22 Twelve stories by the internationally renowned novelist which recreate with energy and authenticity the major social and political issues that confront contemporary Africans on a daily basis. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Dictionary Catalog Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History, 1962 |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Collected Poems Chinua Achebe, 2009-01-16 A collection of poetry spanning the full range of the African-born author's acclaimed career has been updated to include seven never-before-published works, as well as much of his early poetry that explores such themes as the African consciousness, the tragedy of Biafra, and the mysteries of human relationships. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English Erin Fallon, R.C. Feddersen, James Kurtzleben, Maurice A. Lee, Susan Rochette-Crawley, 2013-10-31 Although the short story has existed in various forms for centuries, it has particularly flourished during the last hundred years. Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English includes alphabetically-arranged entries for 50 English-language short story writers from around the world. Most of these writers have been active since 1960, and they reflect a wide range of experiences and perspectives in their works. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes biography, a review of existing criticism, a lengthier analysis of specific works, and a selected bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The volume begins with a detailed introduction to the short story genre and concludes with an annotated bibliography of major works on short story theory. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Supplement, 1969-1973 Estelle A. Fidell, 1974-12 An index to 11,561 stories in 805 collections. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Chinua Achebe , 1990 |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Home and Exile Chinua Achebe, 2000-07-27 Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, the author of Things Fall Apart, the best known--and best selling--novel ever to come out of Africa. His fiction and poetry burn with a passionate commitment to political justice, bringing to life not only Africa's troubled encounters with Europe but also the dark side of contemporary African political life. Now, in Home and Exile, Achebe reveals the man behind his powerful work. Here is an extended exploration of the European impact on African culture, viewed through the most vivid experience available to the author--his own life. It is an extended snapshot of a major writer's childhood, illuminating his roots as an artist. Achebe discusses his English education and the relationship between colonial writers and the European literary tradition. He argues that if colonial writers try to imitate and, indeed, go one better than the Empire, they run the danger of undervaluing their homeland and their own people. Achebe contends that to redress the inequities of global oppression, writers must focus on where they come from, insisting that their value systems are as legitimate as any other. Stories are a real source of power in the world, he concludes, and to imitate the literature of another culture is to give that power away. Home and Exile is a moving account of an exceptional life. Achebe reveals the inner workings of the human conscience through the predicament of Africa and his own intellectual life. It is a story of the triumph of mind, told in the words of one of this century's most gifted writers. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: African Literature, 1988 African Literature Association. Meeting, 1990 |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Children's Literature Association Quarterly , 1996 |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: U.S. Imprints on Sub-Saharan Africa , 1992 |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Chinua Achebe, a Preliminary Checklist , 1978 |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Achebe's World Robert M. Wren, 1980 This volume places each of Achebe's first four novels- Things Fall Apart, No Longer At Ease, Arrow of God, and A Man of Peace - in its historical context. The author contrasts the content of the works with what might have been actual events or practices during Nigeria's colonial occupation. |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Ariel , 1993 |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: The Niger-Nigeria Boundary, 1890-1906 Cosmo Pieterse, Derrick J. Thom, Marilyn Silberfein, 1968 |
| chinua achebe chike's school days: Papers in International Studies , 1973 |
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