Achebe, Chinua (Vol. 7) | Achebe, Chinua 1930–
Achebe, Chinua 1930–
Achebe, a Nigerian novelist, poet, and short story writer, records transition, transformation, and tragedy in the modern history of his people. It has been noted that "his realistic treatment of Nigerian life is as valuable anthropologically and sociologically as it is creatively." (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
Things Fall Apart was criticized by a European scholar and critic in residence in Nigeria for showing a lack of understanding of the religious organization of the Ibo. In his third novel, Arrow of God (1964), Achebe … does give a rather full account of the religious institutions of his grandfather's people. He does not, however, present these institutions in a scholarly manner, but rather as dimensions of the soul and complications in the lives of Nigerian villagers between the two world wars that still, in different ways, both plague and enrich educated Nigerian...
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