THE EDUCATION OF A BRITISH-PROTECTED CHILD
THE EDUCATION OF A BRITISH-PROTECTED CHILD
ISBN: 9781846142598
出版年: 2010-1
页数: 192
定价: 231.00元
内容简介
The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of 'Africa' for its own authorship. For the first thirty years of his life, before Nigeria's independence in 1960, Achebe was officially defined as a 'British Protected Person'. In "The Education of a British-Protected Child" he gives us a vivid, ironic and delicately nuanced portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its 'middle ground', interrogating both his happy memories of reading English adventure stories in secondary school and also the harsher truths of colonial rule.
作者简介
尼日利亚作家，1930年生于尼日利亚，代表作有《这个世界土崩瓦解了》《再也不得安宁》等。曾获曼布克国际文学奖、英联邦诗歌奖、德国书业和平奖、尼日利亚国家奖等多项大奖，被英美等国大学授予了二十多个荣誉博士学位，入选“全球百名公共知识分子”。