Chinua Achebe: Novelist, Poet, Critic

by David Carroll

This is a revised edition of Chinua Achebe (1980), a critical study of the most widely known African writer, which now incorporates a discussion of his most recent work, including his major new novel, Anthills of the Savannah. The study examines the context in which he writes - that complex intermingling of his own Igbo society and European colonialism - before undertaking a critical discussion of the five main novels, his poetry and short stories...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333490800
• ISBN13: 9780333490808
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"