UID:
almahu_9949747526202882
Umfang:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781003471127
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1003471129
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9781040017708
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1040017703
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9781040017753
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1040017754
Serie:
Routledge studies in contemporary literature
Inhalt:
"This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe's novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary works are studied and discussed within the discipline of literary studies and criticism. A central concept, care, which is a humane value, is found to run in the texts, and is the crux of the test that the major characters are subjected to. What challenges them as things to be taken care of through concern may be a human being in a dire circumstance, as with Ikemefuna (Things Fall Apart), the human group itself exposed to famine in what should be harvest time (Arrow of God), or the state which needs to be brought to its proper being, as Heidegger would say (No Longer at Ease and A Man of the People), or human suffering calling to be relieved (Anthills of the Savannah). The novels are all in the tragic mode, because intervention is under some kind of interdiction"--
Anmerkung:
"'Care and Crisis in Chinua Achebe's Novels' is a revised and expanded version of the 4th University of Nigeria Valedictory Lecture given by the author, Professor A.N. Akwanya on 01 December 2022 entitled 'No Longer a Tribe: Chinua Achebe, the Novel, and Optimistic Postcoloniality, University of Nigeria Senate Ceremonials Committee, 2022 at Princess Alexandra Auditorium, University of Nigeria, Nsukka."
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Introduction : renewed concerns -- Chinua Achebe's major literary productions -- Rootedness : the father's field of control -- A new language's reference index -- Resemblances, refigurations -- Involvement under the ethic of care -- Exercise of ethical being -- Postscript : Achebe and optimistic postcoloniality.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Akwanya, Amechi, 1952- Care and crisis in Chinua Achebe's novels New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9781032746647
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9781003471127
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003471127
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