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Home and Exile - Chinua Achebe A Literary Saloon & Site of Review. Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. Contents: to e-mail us: Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe Home and Exile Author: Chinua Achebe Genre: Essays Written: 2000 Length: 107 pages Availability: - US - UK - Canada • This book 'came out of' the 1998 McMillan-Stuart Lectures at Harvard University that Achebe delivered 9-11 December 1998 - Return to of the page - Our Assessment: B: some interesting points, fairly well presented, but lacks focus and depth See for fuller assessment. Source Rating Date Reviewer A 6/1/2001 Alastair Niven The Nation. 10/7/2000 James North The NY Times Book Rev. Community board high five day. 13/8/2000 Christina Cho. 24/2/2001 Robert Oakeshott From the Reviews: • 'In this book, Achebe reveals more than he has before about his parents, his education and his early career before becoming a writer.'

- Alastair Niven, The Independent • 'Achebe's central purpose, advanced with passionate eloquence, is simple: to show how the West continues to insist on a view of Africa that is dark, negative and dehumanizing.' - James North, The Nation • ' Home and Exile is, fittingly, permeated by ideas of rebirth and return.' - Christina Cho, The New York Times Book Review • 'On the other hand, in the case of Joyce Carey’s novel Mister Johnson, which Achebe takes as the prime example of the treatment about which he is complaining, I feel sure, having just read it for the first time, that he gets it in part at least badly wrong.'

- Robert Oakeshott, The Spectator Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. - Return to of the page - The 's Review: Originally three lectures, the three pieces that make up this small book offer some autobiographical background from the great Nigerian author Achebe, as well as an overview of his thoughts on literature from and about Africa.

These are fairly casual pieces, and unfortunately they are still too close in tone to the anecdote-filled lectures that aim to please a large crowd. Nevertheless, there are a number of worthwhile bits strewn in as well. The first piece, My Home under Imperial Fire, is the most autobiographically-focussed. Achebe writes of his Igbo (Ibo) childhood, though it is only a glimpse of his family life that is offered. (His father was an Anglican missionary, retiring in 1935 -- when Chinua was five -- to his ancestral home.) Early literary influences are discussed, the most significant being Joyce Cary's Mister Johnson -- not for its literary qualities but for the questions raised by a European writing an ostensibly 'Nigerian' novel (and the lavish praise he received for, among other things, its authenticity). Achebe convincingly presents Cary's book as a challenge that in many ways inspired him, his own work, and especially his attitude towards literature.

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The second piece, The Empire Fights Back, looks more closely at African literature written by outsiders (most notably the half-outsider Elspeth Huxley), and examines the burgeoning of an authentic African literature in the 1950s. The launch of the epochal Heinemann's African Writers Series is covered, and director Alan Hill receives his due plaudits. Achebe examines reactions in England to books such as Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drunkard, including the reactions of the Nigerians living there who criticized the book (generally, apparently, without even having read it). The final piece, Today, the Balance of Stories, moves towards examining the contemporary situation, ripping into V.S.Naipaul in the process. It is here also that the question of home and exile, travel and return, is most fully explored. The book is a fairly mixed bag. There are memories of his youth and various anecdotes interspersed with quite trenchant analyses of literature from and about Africa.