An Interview With Chinua Achebe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3831008 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles H Rowell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 86 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Callaloo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-2492 • E-ISSN: 1080-6512 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2931612 |
| OpenAlex | W2329394980 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
ROWELL: Mr. Achebe, here in the United States, those of us who read twentieth century world literature think of you as one of the most important writers in this era. We view you as an artist-and for us the word artist has a certain kind of meaning. In the African world, does artist have the same meaning as that conceptualized in the Western world? Or, more specifically, what do Nigerians conceive the writer to be? Is he or she thought of as an artist, a creator of the kind that we think of here in the United States when we speak about writers
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Nigerians · History · Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Things Fall Apartin History
Creating an Alternate Canon
Natives’ Naivety vis-à-vis Settler’s Skepticism and Bible’s Belief
The Prodigal Sons of Africa Proselytized to Christianity
Celebrating Indigenous Culture and Identity in Ice Candy Man
Environmental racism and ecological crisis in Achebe’s Things fall apart (1958), and Gordimer’s My son’s story (1990)
Oedipus, Ogbanje, and the Sons of Independence
“Remapping the Fabric of the African Self
Chinua Achebe
Migrating bards
The Epic Imagination
| Citations per year | 0.46 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2024 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |