The Autumn of the Literary Patriarch
Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Remembering
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9250753 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adebayo Williams (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 8-21 |
| Publication date | 2001-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in African Literatures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ral.2001.32.3.8 |
| OpenAlex | W2067557438 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
For any notable writer and cultural icon, the autumn of career, or "the doyen's December," is an acute and memorable milepost. It is the last bend of the great river. There are final obligations to be met, ancient feuds and awkward accounts to be settled, and the equivalent of a literary will to be written for generations to follow. The anxieties of influence long settled, it is the anxieties of being influential that remain to be settled. Where such a writer is also the crystallizing exemplar of a paradigm shift in literature--postcolonial literature for that matter--the anxieties are bound to be particularly poignant
Art · Icon · Literature · Political science · Politics · African history and culture studies · History · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2014 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |