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Chinua Achebe,C. L. Innes
This anthology of 20 stories are from all over Africa, grouped geographically into four different sections - West, East, North and Southern Africa.
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Chinua Achebe
Here, collected for the first time in Everyman’s Library, are the three internationally acclaimed classic novels that comprise what has come to be known as Achebe’s African Trilogy: Things Fall…
Chinua Achebe is considered the father of modern African literature, the writer who opened the magic casements of African fiction. The African Trilogy–comprised of Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God…
Annemarie Pabel
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Dusseldorf Heinrich Heine , language: English, abstract: In both Chinua…
Clare Clarke,Lindsay Scorgie-Porter
Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe’s essay on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Just because the novel had been accepted into the…
Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe’s essay on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
Chinua Achebe,S. Bushrui,A.N. Jeffares
‘York Notes for GCSE’ offers a useful approach to English Literature and aims to help readers achieve a better grade. Updated to reflect the needs of today’s students, the new…
Ernest A. Champion
his book is a study of James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe, the two most prominent black writers of the twentieth century. Although other books have addressed their individual works, this…
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Dr Richa Jha
The theme of love and marriage in literature is perhaps as old as literature itself. Works of literature across borders and genres have worked around these twin themes to give…
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John Clement Ball
Satire plays a prominent and often controversial role in postcolonial fictions. This work offers the first study of this topic, employing the insights of postcolonial comparative theories to revisit Western…
John Clement Ball,John Clement Ball
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
This book examines how Chinua Achebe presented the Igbo-African world in his writing by analyzing his engagement with critical issues like historical representation, gender, and indigenous political institutions. Contributors study…
Michael Bird,Orlando Bird
Writers’ Letters is a collection of fascinating letters written by great writers, from Dickens to De Beauvoir.
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Soonsik Kim
In the works of three authors whose cultural experiences include colonialism and imperialism, Kim (English, Myongji U.) reveals some startling similarities, despite their coming from the different experiences of India/Pakistan…
Juliane Richter
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Afrika, Note: 2,3, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In the following paper the author wants to explain the main conflict shown…
This book is a timely addition to debates and explorations on the epistemological relevance of African proverbs, especially with growing calls for the decolonisation of African curricula. The editors and…
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
This volume portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the Emergency in Kenya in 1952-1960. Following the village’s arrangements for Uhuru (independence) Day, the novel’s…
Explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and ‘magical’ customs, the Gikuyu people are…
Lorena Onken
Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Dolmetschen / Ubersetzen, Note: 1,5, Universitat Leipzig (IALT), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Frage nach der ubersetzungsstrategischen Vorgehensweise beginnt unmittelbar mit der Entscheidung, einen…
An Upper Level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles and divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner (600)…
Nabil Baazizi
In the wake of decolonization, colonialist narratives have systematically been rewritten from indigenous perspectives. This phenomenon is referred to as the Empire writes back to the centre - a trend…
Ulrich Pallua
The concept of Africaness visualises Africa from three different points of view and at three different stages of history. With reference to Africa’s political background from the 19th to the…
Jaiyeola Doherty
In der allgemeinen Entwicklung des nigerianischen Romans hat die Satire eine nicht unbedeutende Rolle gespielt, denn in und durch die Satire wurden brennende Fragen und Probleme der Zeit gestaltet. Eine…
Vincent Atabavikpo
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universiteat Bielefeld, 2003.
