{"product_id":"home-and-exile-the-web-du-bois-institute-series-9780195135060","title":"Home and Exile (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eChinua Achebe is Africas most prominent writer  the author of Things Fall Apart  the best known--and best selling--novel ever to come out of Africa. His fiction and poetry burn with a passionate commitment to political justice  bringing to life not only Africas troubled encounters with Europe but also the dark side of contemporary African political life. Now  in Home and Exile  Achebe reveals the man behind his powerful work. Here is an extended exploration of the European impact on African culture  viewed through the most vivid experience available to the author--his own life. It is an extended snapshot of a major writers childhood  illuminating his roots as an artist. Achebe discusses his English education and the relationship between colonial writers and the European literary tradition. He argues that if colonial writers try to imitate and  indeed  go one better than the Empire  they run the danger of undervaluing their homeland and their own people. Achebe contends that to redress the inequities of global oppression  writers must focus on where they come from  insisting that their value systems are as legitimate as any other. Stories are a real source of power in the world  he concludes  and to imitate the literature of another culture is to give that power away. Home and Exile is a moving account of an exceptional life. Achebe reveals the inner workings of the human conscience through the predicament of Africa and his own intellectual life. It is a story of the triumph of mind  told in the words of one of this centurys most gifted writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648059891765,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195135067","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195135060.jpg?v=1781708433","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/home-and-exile-the-web-du-bois-institute-series-9780195135060","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}