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Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe (SIGNED) (First Edition) (Hardcover)
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- Condition
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780195135060
- Book Title
- Home and Exile
- Item Length
- 4.8in
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Africa / General, Literary, Political, African, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Item Width
- 7.8in
- Item Weight
- 7.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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"Home and Exile" is Achebe's first fully autobiographical work, although like his previous books, it will undertake a sustained exploration of the European impact on African culture. In a series of literary and gently humorous reminiscences from his childhood and early adulthood, Achebe speaks about his own intellectual formation under European-style schooling, and the battles over representation he fought with and within himself while establishing his identity as a respected African writer.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195135067
ISBN-13
9780195135060
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1648497
Product Key Features
Book Title
Home and Exile
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Africa / General, Literary, Political, African, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
4.8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
7.8in
Item Weight
7.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr9387.9.A3z467 2000
Reviews
"Achebe celebrates this reclamation of one's home by offering his own Nigeria, in the form of memories, family anecdotes, parables of the Igbo people---stories constituting a master narrative at once intimately embedded in the history and the heritage of a continent and too intensely personalto be reduced for the sake of political stratagems."--The New York Times Book Review, "In this slim volume, Achebe, who pioneered the modern African novel with Things Fall Apart, criticizes European imperialism, which long usurped the cultures of African people.... Achebe eloquently recalls the process of repossessing a culture that, for ignoble purposes, was lost, stolen, andappropriated."--Booklist, "Reading Achebe is to know Africa in a way that few are able to tell.Achebe weaves anecdotes from his childhood, schooling, and writing life withAfrican proverbs and literary and political theory to contribute beautifully tothe 'process of "re-storying" peoples who had been knocked silent by the traumaof all kinds of dispossession'. His passion and truth are sensuous andcontagious, warming one's soul."--Library Journal, "A moving account of an exceptional life . . . Achebe reveals the inner workings of the human conscience through the predicament of Africa and his own intellectual life. . . a story of the triumph of the mind, told in the words of one of this century's most gifted writers. The book is bound tobe a classic of its kind"-- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University, "His 1958 debut, Things Fall Apart, remains one of the most widely read books in African literature. Home and Exile--the author's first book in more than a decade--comes full circle with its look at colonialism's long reach."--Emerge, "In this slim volume, Achebe, who pioneered the modern African novel withThings Fall Apart, criticizes European imperialism, which long usurped thecultures of African people.... Achebe eloquently recalls the process ofrepossessing a culture that, for ignoble purposes, was lost, stolen, andappropriated."--Booklist, "This slim volume--told in Achebe's subtle, witty, and gracious style--isone of those small gems of literary adn historical analysis that readers willtreasure and reread over the years."--Publisher's Weekly, "His 1958 debut, Things Fall Apart, remains one of the most widely readbooks in African literature. Home and Exile--the author's first book in morethan a decade--comes full circle with its look at colonialism's longreach."--Emerge, "Reading Achebe is to know Africa in a way that few are able to tell. Achebe weaves anecdotes from his childhood, schooling, and writing life with African proverbs and literary and political theory to contribute beautifully to the 'process of "re-storying" peoples who had been knocked silentby the trauma of all kinds of dispossession'. His passion and truth are sensuous and contagious, warming one's soul."--Library Journal, "In all Achebe's writing there is an intense moral energy, as there is wherever he speaks about the task of the writer. . . in language that captures the sense of threat and loss that must have faced many Africans as empire invaded and disrupted their lives. . . his convictions are as clearand as strong and as elegantly expressed and his moral commitments as passionate as one could hope for."--Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy, Harvard University, "Achebe celebrates this reclamation of one's home by offering his ownNigeria, in the form of memories, family anecdotes, parables of the Igbopeople--stories constituting a master narrative at once intimately embedded inthe history and heritage of a continent and too intensely personal to be reducedfor the sake of political stratagems."--The New York Times Book Review, "A moving account of an exceptional life . . . Achebe reveals the innerworkings of the human conscience through the predicament of Africa and his ownintellectual life. . . a story of the triumph of the mind, told in the words ofone of this century's most gifted writers. The book is bound to be a classic ofits kind"-- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities,Harvard University, "In defining the dignity and vibrancy of African literature, Chinua Achebe defies the stranglehold of colonial, imperialist and cultural dispossession. He brings us into balance with a world of literature and hope that the West with its myth of primacy denies."--Walter Mosely, "In defining the dignity and vibrancy of African literature, Chinua Achebedefies the stranglehold of colonial, imperialist and cultural dispossession. Hebrings us into balance with a world of literature and hope that the West withits myth of primacy denies."-Walter Mosely, "This slim volume--told in Achebe's subtle, witty, and gracious style--is one of those small gems of literary and historical analysis that readers will treasure and reread over the years."--Publisher's Weekly, "In all Achebe's writing there is an intense moral energy, as there iswherever he speaks about the task of the writer. . . in language that capturesthe sense of threat and loss that must have faced many Africans as empireinvaded and disrupted their lives. . . his convictions are as clear and asstrong and as elegantly expressed and his moral commitments as passionate as onecould hope for."--Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Afro-American Studies andPhilosophy, Harvard University
Copyright Date
2000
Lccn
99-462124
Dewey Decimal
823.914
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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