Chinua Achebe and the Development of Igbo/African Studies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20046034
AutoresRaphael Chijioke Njoku (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, autor de correspondencia), Raphael Njoku
Año2013
Páginas249-266
Fecha de publicación2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaIgbo Intellectual Tradition (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137311290_10
OpenAlexW2489724698
ISBN9781137311290
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas13

This chapter examines the contributions of Chinua Achebe to the development of Igbo Studies in particular, and African Studies in general.1 Conceived in the colonial context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when very little was preserved in writing by the Africans on Igbo social life and customs, Achebe’s trilogy—Things Fall Apart (1958), No Longer at Ease (1960) and Arrow of God (1964)—have particularly served scholars of all disciplines as a rare intellectual resource material.2 The plot of these works was primarily intended to shed light on different aspects of Igbo/African social institutions and practices as well as highlight the nature of conflicts that threatened the indigenous society as it came under alien intrusion

Art history · Civilization · Colonialism · Context (archaeology) · Igbo · Indigenous · Sociology · Trilogy · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Ecology · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies