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Title:'Arrow of God' golden jubilee edition
Editor:Akwanya, AmechiISNI
Year:2014
Periodical:Okike: an African Journal of New Writing (ISSN 0331-0566)
Issue:52
Language:English
City of publisher:Nsukka
Publisher:Okike Magazine
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:novels
literary criticism
About person:Albert Chinualumogu Achebe (1930-2013)ISNI
Abstract:This issue of Okike collects papers presented at the 'Golden Jubilee Conference', organized in Nigeria on 17 and 18 July 2014 to commemorate the publication, fifty years earlier, of Chinua Achebe's novel 'Arrow of God'. The papers highlight various themes in the book, from 'old' ones such as culture conflict and the pride and dignity of Igbo culture to newer ones focussing on people's relationships with one another and including issues such as leadership, power and dominance, heroism and madness, spiritual values and individualism. The papers look at the novel from socio-political, cultural or psychological angles, or concentrate on form and genre. They share an approach that views the novel in the first place as a work of art instead of as a message-bearing text. Profoundly conflicting readings turn up of identical passages, often depending on the interpretative paradigms at work. Several papers concentrate on the character of Ezeulu, finding him complex and enigmatic, a profoundly humane character, and yet more than a man, a wise and diligent counsellor, a hard-pressed hero. Contributors: Romanus Egudu; A.N. Akwanya, Dan Izevbaye, Charles E. Nnolim, Bernth Lindfors, Remy Oriaku, Kabir Ahmed, Julia Udofia, Abba A. Abba, Elijah Ojochonu Okpanachi, Adah P. Idachaba, Omotosho Moses Melefa, Thomas Michael Emeka Chukwumezie, Judith A. Mgbemena, John Olatunde Uwa, Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, Felix Chinedu, M. Amadihe Ezugu, Onyemuche Anele Ejesu, Ifeanyi Ugwu, Ngoze Dora Ulogu, Senayon Olauluwa, Emmanuel J. Ibuot. [ASC Leiden abstract]