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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 how his work draws from African historical reality and identity while challenging Western epistemological hegemony.
List of contents
Introduction: Chinua Achebe, Writing Culture, and the Politics of Representations
Chima J. Korieh and Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku
Part I. Chinua Achebe and Igbo-African Realities
Chapter 1: Causality in Selected Cultural Novels by Chinua Achebe: Perspectives in Igbo Metaphysics
B. E. Nwigwe
Chapter 2: (Re)Discovering the Igbo Oral Tradition in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah
Alassane Abdoulaye Dia
Chapter 3: Symbols and Images in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Nureni Oyewole Fadare
Chapter 4: Igbo Communal Ethos: A Reading of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart &Arrow of God
Ijeoma Nwajiaku
Chapter 5: Things Fall Apart and Igbo Leadership: Learning and Unlearning the Lessons of Okonkwo's Life
N. Tony Nwaezeigwe
Chapter 6: Achebe and the Pedagogy of Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Gleanings from Arrow of God
Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku
Part II: Chinua Achebe and Politics of Representation
Chapter 7: Chinua Achebe's "'Chi' in Igbo Cosmology": Revisiting a Classic
Chijioke Azuawusiefe
Chapter 8: Discourse, Imagination, and Models of Resistance: Re-reading Arrow of God
Ifi Amaduime
Chapter 9: The Collision of Asymmetric Civilizations-A Reading of Things Fall Apart
Ihechukwu C. Madubuike
Chapter 10: (Re)Memorising Igbo Traditions in Achebe's Arrow of God: A Psychoanalytical Study
Linda Jummai Mustafa
Part III: Achebe, History, and the National Question
Chapter 11: Telling Africa's Story: Chinua Achebe and the Power of Narratives
Chijioke Azuawusiefe
Chapter 12: Narrativizing History: Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Interpretation
Anwesha Das
Chapter 13: Achebeism and the Nigerian Leadership Problem
Ada Uzoamaka Azodo
Chapter 14: Chinua Achebe as a Voice of Reason on the Nigerian Crisis: A Historical Look at the Larger Picture
Odigwe A. Nwaokocha
Chapter 15: Chinua Achebe and the National Question
Bernard Steiner Ifekwe
About the author
Chima J. Korieh is professor of African History at Marquette University.
Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku teaches English and African literature in the Languages Department of Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Nigeria.
