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Chinua Achebe: An Anthology of Recent Criticism
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This critical anthology brings together some of the major contemporary revaluations of the entire oeuvre of Chinua Achebe. The contributors, accomplished scholars from across the globe, probe a wide range of issues that have profoundly engaged Achebe, including neo-colonial appropriations in post-independence times, alternative paradigms of identity-formation and cultural resistance, affirmative uses of oral linguistic tradition, representation of the feminine (gender) in the author’s narratives, and his persistent efforts to liberate African criticism from Euro-centric stereotypes. The volume unfolds, through multiple theoretical and critical frameworks, the incredible literary journey of Achebe, his creative and intellectual output, and his personal and societal re-discovery.
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Mala Pandurang is Head of the Department of English at Dr BMN College, Mumbai. She is also a Post-doctoral Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn. Most recently, she was awarded a Fulbright Grant and was Visiting Professor at the University of Texas, Austin, USA. Her publications include Postcolonial African Fiction: The Crisis of Consciousness (New Delhi: 1997); Articulating Gender (co-ed.) (New Delhi: 2000); Vikram Seth: Multiple Locations, Multiple Affiliations (Jaipur: 2002); and Mediating Indian Writing in English: German Responses (co-ed.) (Jaipur: 2005 and Berlin: 2006).
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Contributors :
Mala Pandurang, Anuradha Ghosh, Mary E. Modupe Kolawale, Kwadwo Osei-Nyame, Roopali Sircar, Reema Kansal and Amit Sarwal, Anjali Roy, Viney Kirpal, Debashish Lahiri, Russell McDougall, Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo, Anke Bartels, Peter T. Simatei, Obiwu, Chima Anyadike and Ike Anya. |
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ISBN 81-85753-73-3 2010 256 pp Rs.495 (hb) |
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