Achebe the Orator: The Art of Persuasion in Chinua Achebe's Novels [Hardcover]

Chinwe Okechukwu (Author)

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Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Praeger (Mar 30 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0313317038
ISBN-13: 978-0313317033
Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.6 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 476 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,329,246 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"This study of Chinua Achebe's novels is markedly different in a very positive way--addressing the ramifications of the renowned author's use of rhetoric. Drawing exhaustively from forms of rhetoric from classical Greek to modern times and with deep knowledge of traditional Igbo African oratory. Christina Okechukwa has done a landmark study of Achebe's fictional works in a most enlightening scholarly way. Every serious student or scholar of African, comparative, postcolonial, and world literatures should be appreciative of Okechukwu's effort for bringing fresh insights into these works. Achebe the Orator: The Art of Persuasion in Chinua Achebe's Novels raises Achebe Studies to an aesthtic height that validates the author as a consummate verbal artist of local and universal appeal."-Tanure Ojaide, Ph. D. Professor of African-American and African Studies The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Taken together, Chinua Achebe's five novels--Things Fall Apart (1958), No Longer at Ease (1960), A Man of the People (1966), Arrow of God (1967), and Anthills of the Savannah (1988)--encompass the entire social, historical, and political experiences of Nigeria, from precolonial times to the close of the 20th century. Central to these experiences is the clash of Igbo culture with the ways of the West. This book analyzes Achebe's use of oratory and rhetorical devices to educate his readers about the African colonial encounter and its aftermath and to delineate his characters. By examining the relationship of rhetoric and literature in Achebe's works, this volume sheds light on his use of the novel genre to persuade.

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Chinua Achebe was born in 1930 to a Christian evangelist and church teacher in Ogidi in what was then Eastern Region of Nigeria (now Anambra State). Read the first page

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