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Hopes and impediments : selected essays / Chinua Achebe

Author
Achebe, Chinua
Published
New York : Doubleday, [1989]
Copyright Date
©1988
Edition
1st American ed., [uncorrected proof].
Physical Description
xiii, 182 pages ; 21 cm

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Contents
An image of Africa : racism in Conrad's The heart of darkness -- Impediments to dialogue between north and south -- Named for Victoria, Queen of England -- The novelist as teacher -- The writer and his community -- The Igbo world and its art -- Colonialist criticism -- Thoughts on the African novel -- Work and play in Tutuola's The palm-wine drinkard -- Don't let him die : a tribute to Christopher Okigbo -- Kofi Awoonor as a novelist -- Language and the destiny of man -- The truth of fiction -- What has literature got to do with it? -- Postscript : James Baldwin (1924-1987).
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ISBN
0385247303
Collection
Charles L. Blockson Collection of African Americana and the African Diaspora.
Note
"This is an uncorrected proof. Please note that any quotes used for reviews must be checked against the finished book"--Cover.
"Tentative publication: 10/89"--Cover.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [178]-182).
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