Home and exile

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Label

Home and exile

Statement of responsibility

Chinua Achebe

Creator

• Achebe, Chinua

Subject

• Africa -- Civilization | Western influences
• Authors, Nigerian -- 20th century -- Biography
• Biographies
• Exiles -- Nigeria -- Biography
• Achebe, Chinua
• Nigerians -- United States -- Biography
• Nigeria -- Intellectual life

Genre

• Biography
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

• " ... an extended exploration of the European impact on African culture, viewed through the most vivid experience available to the author--his own life."--Jacket
• "Here is an extended exploration of the European impact on African culture, viewed through the most vivid experience available to the author - his own life. It is an evocative snapshot of a major writer's childhood, illuminating his roots as an artist. Achebe discusses his English education and the relationship between colonial writers and the European literary tradition. He argues that if colonial writers try to imitate and, indeed, go one better than the Empire, they run the danger of undervaluing their homeland and their own people. Achebe contends that to redress the inequities of global oppression, writers must focus on where they come from, insisting that their value systems are as legitimate as any other. Stories are a real source of power in the world, he concludes, and to imitate the literature of another culture is to give that power away."--BOOK JACKET

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 823/.914
• B

Index

index present

LC call number

PR9387.9.A3

LC item number

Z467 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography