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The Chinua Achebe Encyclopedia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780325070636)
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M. Keith Booker
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xSeveral hundred A-Z entries cover Achebe's major works, important characters and settings, key concepts and issues, and more.
Though best known as a novelist, Achebe is also a critic, activist, and spokesman for African culture. This reference is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to his life and writings. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries. Some of these are substantive summary discussions of Achebe's major works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Entries are written by expert contributors and close with brief bibliographies. The volume also provides a general bibliography and chronology. Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe is widely regarded as the most important of the numerous African novelists who gained global attention in the second half of the 20th century. Achebe is certainly the African writer best known in the West, and his first novel, Things Fall Apart, is a founding text of postcolonial African literature and regarded as one of the central works of world literature of the last 50 years. Though best known as a novelist, Achebe is also a critic, activist, and spokesman for African culture. This reference is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to his life and writings. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries. Some of these are substantive summary discussions of Achebe's major works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Other topics include all of his major fictional characters and settings, important concepts and issues central to his writings, historical persons, places, and events relevant to his works, and influential texts by other writers. Entries are written by expert contributors and close with brief bibliographies. The volume also provides a general bibliography and chronology.Author: M. Keith Booker
ISBN-10: 0325070636
ISBN-13: 9780325070636
Publisher: Greenwood
Language: English
Published: 12/30/2003
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.93lbs
Size: 10.26h x 7.08w x 1.08d
Review Citation(s):
American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2005 pg. 512
Choice 09/01/2004 pg. 60
By M. Keith Booker
xM. KEITH BOOKER is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of numerous articles and books on modern literature and literary theory, including Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide (Greenwood, 1994), Joyce, Bakhtin, and the Literary Tradition(1996), The Modern British Novel of the Left (Greenwood, 1998), The African Novel in English Heinemann, 1998), The Modern American Novel of the Left (Greenwood, 1999), The Post-Utopian Imagination (Greenwood, 2002), and Strange TV (Greenwood, 2002).
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