Chinua Achebe

"Analyzes fictional and historical cartographies of Africa in a full range of Achebe's literary works--novels including Things Fall Apart, but also short stories, poems, and essays--to offer a critical representation of Africa's present and future. The author focuses on the historical valuation of these texts as important contributions to political events in Nigeria and, by extension, Africa. Dwelling on the Nigerian political context upon which many, if not all, of the writer's narratives lie, this book examines methodologies of narration and ideologies that allow his works to resonate with the imagination of Africa"--