From Igboland to the East End
From Igboland to the East End
Recasting African Identity from Olaudah Equiano to Buchi Emecheta
This chapter examines readings of Chinua Achebe with Conrad, Cary, and Emecheta, showing the complexity of Achebe's own historical, cultural, political, and literary interventions, and indicating the continuity of West African-British writing from the abolitionist generation of Equiano and Gronniosaw to the postindependence generation of Achebe and Emecheta. This chapter is an attempt that opens Achebe himself to ideological critiques that examine the overt anticolonialism and nationalism of his work from perspectives of which he himself may not have been conscious.
Keywords: Igboland, African identity, Olaudah Equiano, Buchi Emecheta, Anglo-African literature, Chinua Achebe, eighteenth century, anticolonialism, nationalism
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