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Article: Oral Tradition and Modern Storytelling: Revisiting Chinua Achebe's Short Stories.
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- International Fiction Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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An exclusive preoccupation with Chinua Achebe's novels has somewhat decidedly deflected attention away from his work both as a short-story writer and as a writer of children's fiction.(1) The aim of this essay is to rekindle interest specifically in Achebe's short fiction. Numerically, Achebe's showing as a short-story writer may not quite place him on a par with that of other world-class writers. Edgar Allan Poe, Nawal El Saadawi, Alex La Guma, Herman Melville, Nurudin Farah, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Buchi Emechetta, Anton Chekhov, Bessie Head, Henry James, and Najib Mahfuz, among others,(2) not only distinguished themselves as master novelists but were equally at home in ...
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Article: Chinua Achebe: A Bio-Bibliographic Review
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...In the late twentieth century Chinua Achebe arose as one of Nigeria's favored sons ... November 16, 1930, and later adopted Chinua Achebe (Ravenscroft, 1986, p. 5). His upbringing ... and was an early influence upon Chinua Achebe, as Nkrumah's return from London to ...
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