Chinua Achebe (1930–2013)
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Albert Chinualumogu Achebe was born on November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria. He studied English, history and theology at University College in Ibadan from 1948 to 1953. After receiving a second-class degree, he taught for a while before joining the Nigeria Broadcasting Service in 1954. He was mostra altro working as a broadcaster when he wrote his first two novels, and then quit working to devote himself to writing full time. Unfortunately his literary career was cut short by the Nigerian Civil War. During this time he supported the ill-fated Biafrian cause and served abroad as a diplomat. He and his family narrowly escaped assassination. After the civil war, he abandoned fiction for a period in favor of essays, short stories, and poetry. His works include Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, No Longer at Ease, A Man of the People, Anthills of the Savannah, and There Was a Country. He also wrote four children's books including Chike and the River and How the Leopard Got His Claws. In 2007, he won the Man Booker International Prize for his "overall contribution to fiction on the world stage." He also worked as a professor of literature in Nigeria and the United States. He died following a brief illness on March 21, 2013 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Photograph by Stuart C. Shapiro; used by permission
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Opere di Chinua Achebe
Dove batte la pioggia. Ciclo narrativo - Il Crollo (Titolo originale Things fall apart) - La freccia di Dio (Titolo… (1988) 442 copie
Speranze e ostacoli Saggi scelti 1965-1987 (Titolo originale Hopes and Impediments) (1988) 198 copie
Things Fall Apart : No Longer At Ease : Anthills of the Savannah (Voices of the African Diaspora) (1987) 27 copie
Dead Men's Path 4 copie
Sugar Baby [short story] 4 copie
Už nikdy klid 2 copie
Marriage is a Private Affair 2 copie
Civil Peace 2 copie
හිරු බැස ගිය පසු 1 copia
Things fall apart 1 copia
Human Mine Sweeper 1 copia
Opere correlate
A World of Ideas : Conversations With Thoughtful Men and Women About American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our… (1989) — Interviewee — 548 copie
Other Voices, Other Vistas: Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America (1992) — Collaboratore — 187 copie
African Rhapsody: Short Stories of the Contemporary African Experience (1994) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 16 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Achebe, Albert Chinụalụmọgụ
- Data di nascita
- 1930-11-16
- Data di morte
- 2013-03-21
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Ogidi, Anambra State, Nigeria
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Nigeria
- Luogo di nascita
- Ogidi, Anambra State, Nigeria Protectorate
- Luogo di morte
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Ogidi, Nigeria
Nekede, Nigeria
Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria
Oba, Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria
Enugu, Nigeria (mostra tutto 12)
Aba, Biafra
Nsukku, Nigeria
Nneobi, Nigeria
Annandale, New York, USA
Massachusetts, USA
Providence, Rhode Island, USA - Istruzione
- University College, Ibadan, Nigeria
University of London - Attività lavorative
- broadcaster
professor
novelist
short-story writer
poet
school teacher - Relazioni
- Okigbo, Christopher (friend)
- Organizzazioni
- Anambra State University of Technology
Bard College
Brown University
Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Booker Prize (2007)
Visiting professorship (University of Massachusetts-Amherst ∙ University of Connecticut ∙ UCLA)
Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (2002)
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Honorary Fellowship.
Nigerian National Merit Award - Breve biografia
- Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. He was raised in the large village of Ogidi, one of the first centers of Anglican missionary work in Eastern Nigeria, and was a graduate of University College, Ibadan.
His early career in radio ended abruptly in 1966, when he left his post as Director of External Broadcasting in Nigeria during the national upheaval that led to the Biafran War. He was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and began lecturing widely abroad.
From 1972 to 1976, and again in 1987 to 1988, Mr. Achebe was Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and also for one year at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Cited in the London Sunday Times as one of the "1,000 Makers of the Twentieth Century" for defining "a modern African literature that was truly African" and thereby making "a major contribution to world literature," Chinua Achebe published novels, short stories, essays and children's books. [adapted from Things Fall Apart, c1959, 1994 printing Anchor Books Ed.]
Mr. Achebe received numerous honors from around the world including more than twenty honorary doctorates from universities in England, Scotland, the United States, Canada, and Nigeria.
Latterly Mr. Achebe lived with his wife in Annandale, New York, where they both taught at Bard College. They had four children.
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Discussioni
AFRICAN NOVEL CHALLENGE JULY 2023 - ACHEBE / OKRI in 75 Books Challenge for 2023 (Agosto 2023)
Things Fall Apart Chapters 18-25/END in Geeks who love the Classics (Febbraio 2022)
Things Fall Apart Chapters 9-17 in Geeks who love the Classics (Febbraio 2022)
Things Fall Apart Chapters 1-8 in Geeks who love the Classics (Gennaio 2022)
Things Fall Apart Jan-March 2022 Housekeeping Items in Geeks who love the Classics (Gennaio 2022)
November 2020: Chinua Achebe in Monthly Author Reads (Dicembre 2020)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 53
- Opere correlate
- 19
- Utenti
- 28,381
- Popolarità
- #711
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 576
- ISBN
- 412
- Lingue
- 26
- Preferito da
- 44
Però come sempre le visione manichee eliminano i dettagli che ci aiutano a farci un’idea più chiara della complessità delle situazioni: Achebe inizia mostrandoci il funzionamento della società ibo attraverso uno dei suoi membri più in vista e rispettati, Okonkwo, un uomo molto ambizioso che gode della stima del suo villaggio, conquistata a fatica a partire da una condizione familiare di svantaggio.
Okonkwo, però, non è il tipico personaggio positivo per cui ci viene spontaneo fare il tifo: affogato nel suo bisogno di affermare la sua mascolinità a tutti i costi per smarcarsi dall’ombra del padre, un uomo lontano dell’ideale guerriero ibo, è difficile provare simpatia per lui mentre maltratta il figlio, che vorrebbe più simile a lui, e picchia le mogli.
Achebe lo ha reso un esempio perfetto della società ibo nel momento i cui l’uomo bianco è arrivato: una società niente affatto idilliaca e non una mitica età dell’oro precoloniale alla quale aspirare a tornare, ma una società come tante altre, con i suoi pregi e i suoi difetti. Sicuramente una società bisognosa di un cambiamento, un bisogno che diviene drammaticamente evidente a tuttз nel momento in cui la religione cristiana manifesta tutta la sua attrattiva sullз abitanti del villaggio.
La tesi di Achebe è che entrambe le culture si siano dimostrate rigide e si siano rifiutate di lasciarsi contaminare l’una dall’altra, vedendo nella contaminazione solo la corruzione della propria purezza e non una preziosa evoluzione. Alla fine la cultura inglese è diventata quella colonizzatrice (e distruttrice) solo perché la sua potenza offensiva in quel contesto era maggiore, non perché fosse culturalmente superiore: non c’è nessuna superiorità morale nell’essere solo il bullo più forte.… (altro)