Care and Crisis in Chinua Achebe's Novels Hardback
by Amechi Nicholas Akwanya
Part of the Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature series
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This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe’s novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary works are studied and discussed within the discipline of literary studies and criticism.
A central concept, care, which is a humane value, is found to run in the texts, and is the crux of the test that the major characters are subjected to.
What challenges them as things to be taken care of through concern may be a human being in a dire circumstance, as with Ikemefuna (Things Fall Apart), the human group itself exposed to famine in what should be harvest time (Arrow of God), or the state which needs to be brought to its proper being, as Heidegger would say (No Longer at Ease and A Man of the People), or human suffering calling to be relieved (Anthills of the Savannah).
The novels are all in the tragic mode, because intervention is under some kind of interdiction.
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- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:16/04/2024
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- Pages:208 pages
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- ISBN:9781032746647
