Chinua Achebe "Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays, 1965-1987" (Doubleday, 1988)




Several of the essays caution against generalizing all African people into a monolithic culture, or using Africa as a facile metaphor. The opening essay, "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness", challenged the prevailing opinions in the west about Joseph Conrad's depiction of African people. He also discusses several notable authors and shares his opinion on the role of writers and writing in cultures. In a contemporary review, Chris Dunton wrote: "The essays in his new book remind us also how tough-minded, how properly insistent, he can be in exposing false and demeaning ideas about Africa and its culture." The book is dedicated to Professor Michael Thelwell.

Chinua Achebe "Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays, 1965-1987"
Published by Doubleday, 1988, pages 130



Table of Contents
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Impediments to Dialogue Between North and South
Named for Victoria, Queen of England
The Novelist as Teacher
The Writer and His Community
The Igbo World and Its Art
Colonialist Criticism
Thoughts on the African Novel
Work and Play in Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Don’t Let Him Die: A Tribute to Christopher Okigbo
Kofi Awoonor as Novelist
Language and the Destiny of Man
The Truth of Fiction
What Has Literature Got To Do With It?
Postscript: James Baldwin (1924-1987)

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