Chinua Achebe Author:David Carroll This critical study of the African writer, Chinua Achebe, has been revised and a new chapter added. Throughout there is an underlying concern with his system of values and its response to the turbulent history of modern Nigeria - colonialism, independence, political disillusionment and military rule. The study attempts to relate the novelist's c... more »areer to the problematic role of the African writer, a role to which Achebe himself has contributed a great deal of thought in his various essays. The Introduction presents the context in which he writes - in particular, the traditional ways of his own Igbo society, and the European contact with Africa. It is the complex and continuing interaction of these cultures that forms the central theme of most of his writings.« less
ISBN-13: 9780312133863 ISBN-10: 0312133863 Pages:192 Edition:Rev Sub Rating: