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Home and Exile

Home and Exile

Achebe, Chinua

Paperback

Literary FiguresPolitical BiographiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0385721331
ISBN13: 9780385721332
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Sep 18 2001
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A rare opportunity to glimpse a bit of the man behind the monumental novels. --Chicago Tribune

Powerful and deeply personal, these three essays by the great Nigerian author articulate his mission to rescue African culture from the narratives written by Europeans. Looking through the prism of his experiences as a student in English schools in Nigeria, he recalls his first encounters with European perspectives on Africa in the works of Joyce Cary and Elspeth Huxley. He examines the impact that his novel Things Fall Apart--as well as fellow Nigerian Amos Tutola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard and Jomo Kenyatta's Facing Mt. Kenya, among other works--had on efforts to reclaim Africa's story. He confronts the persistence of colonial views of Africa. And he argues for the importance of living and writing the African experience: Africa needs stories told by Africans.

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