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Heaton  \nVirginia Tech  \nBlacksburg, USA  \n“In this fine study, Thomas Jay Lynn outlines how Achebe ‘navigated a course that affirmed both African and European linguistic traditions’ in the vivid deployment of three languages: English, Igbo and Nigerian Pidgin. Moreover, Lynn shows, Achebe’s work connected the two ‘storytelling realms’ of orature and literature, linking the past with the present ‘through the story.’ Astute, meticulous and fresh in its focus, Lynn’s study is a notable contribution to Achebe studies.”  \n—Annie Gagiano, author ofAchebe, Head, Marechera: On Power  \nand Change in Africa (2000)  \n“This first major study since Achebe’s death in 2013 re-envisions his six-decade career through the twin lenses of language and narration. Thomas Jay Lynn’s illuminating long perspective, which integrates discussion of Achebe’s fiction and nonfiction, offers new insights into Africa’s most iconic writer and the postcolonial politics of narration. Other distinguishing features include welcome chapters on the much-anthologized short story‘Civil Peace’ and on cross-cultural strategies for teaching Achebe’s fiction. Comprehensive, lucid, and accessible, Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Narration: Envisioning Language will prove indispensable to scholars, teachers, and students alike.”  \n—Dr Peter Blair, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Chester, UK“Thomas Jay Lynn’s welcome study reminds readers that Africa’s most famous novelist has been central to the continent’s literary preoccupations: corrupt politicians and resistant tricksters, colonizing language and oral creativity, subterranean incivility and carnivalesque release. Throughout, Lynn shows the dangers of too easily overlooking the tense Janus-like gaze of this deceptively pellucid author, who always sees the complexity at the heart of everything.”  \n—John C. Hawley, Professor, Department of English, Santa Clara University  \nThis book series serves as a scholarly forum on African contributions to and negotiations of diverse modernities over time and space, with a particular emphasis on historical developments. Specifically, it aims to refute the hegemonic conception of a singular modernity, Western in origin, spreading out to encompass the globe over the last several decades. Indeed, rather than reinforcing conceptual boundaries or parameters, the series instead looks to receive and respond to changing perspectives on an important but inherently nebulous idea, deliberately creating a space in which multiple modernities can interact, overlap, and conflict. While privileging works that emphasize historical change over time, the series will also feature scholarship that blurs the lines between the historical and the contemporary, recognizing the ways in which our changing understandings of modernity in the present have the capacity to affect the way we think about African and global histories.  \nEditorial Board  \nAderonke Adesanya, Art History, James Madison University Kwabena Akurang-Parry, History, Shippensburg University Samuel O. Oloruntoba, History, University of North Carolina, Wilmington  \nTyler Fleming, History, University of Louisville  \nBarbara Harlow, English and Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin  \nEmmanuel Mbah, History, College of Staten Island  \nAkin Ogundiran, Africana Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte  \nMore information about this series at  \n[http://www.springer.com/series/14758](http://www.springer.com/series/14758)  \nThomas Jay Lynn  \nChinua Achebe and the Politics of Narration  \nEnvisioning Language  \nThomas Jay Lynn Penn State Berks Reading, USA  \nAfrican Histories and Modernities  \nISBN 978-3-319-51330-0 ISBN 978-3-319-51331-7 (eBook)  \nDOI 10.1007/978-3-319-51331-7  \nLibrary of Congress Control Number: 2017937057  \n© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017  \nThis work is subjec","cbCaicog3pzhYcYi","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicog3pzhYcYi","pdf",9421007,181,"English","# Acknowledgments\n## Series Information and Editorial Board\n## Book Overview and Reviews\n## Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Narration: Envisioning Language","[{\"question\":\"How does the book frame Achebe’s career?\",\"answer\":\"It re-envisions Achebe’s six-decade career through language and narration, integrating discussion of both his fiction and nonfiction.\"},{\"question\":\"Which languages are central to the book’s analysis?\",\"answer\":\"The study emphasizes Achebe’s vivid deployment of English, Igbo, and Nigerian Pidgin and how these languages shape storytelling.\"},{\"question\":\"What connections does the book draw between orature and literature?\",\"answer\":\"It links the “storytelling realms” of orature and literature, showing how Achebe connects past and present “through the story.”\"}]","Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Narration - Envisioning Language | PDF",1789940165,279]