Phoenix, Volume 1Sri Lanka Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 1990 - Commonwealth literature (English) |
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Page 49
Warmth and humour - though one does not immediately associate her own
novels with humour - appear to have been important to her: she makes the same
criticism about Achebe's work (L2, p. 1). One is taken aback when, going further,
she ...
Warmth and humour - though one does not immediately associate her own
novels with humour - appear to have been important to her: she makes the same
criticism about Achebe's work (L2, p. 1). One is taken aback when, going further,
she ...
Page 53
The only thing I felt extremely uncomfortable about was the comment on Chinua
Achebe's writing. It is true that I said I did not like "A Man Of The People". It had no
sense of proper values - something along those lines. But by then I had not yet ...
The only thing I felt extremely uncomfortable about was the comment on Chinua
Achebe's writing. It is true that I said I did not like "A Man Of The People". It had no
sense of proper values - something along those lines. But by then I had not yet ...
Page 56
There is that question Chinua Achebe poses in "A Man Of The People". "What do
you do when you come in from the cold ?" Independent Africa often answers this
in a terrible way - we want cars, we want all the women going, we need several ...
There is that question Chinua Achebe poses in "A Man Of The People". "What do
you do when you come in from the cold ?" Independent Africa often answers this
in a terrible way - we want cars, we want all the women going, we need several ...
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