Care and Crisis in Chinua Achebe's Novels

<p>This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe’s novels in which they are read as works of literary art as literary works are studied and discussed within the discipline of literary studies and criticism. A central concept care which is a humane value is found to run in the texts and is the crux of the test that the major characters are subjected to. What challenges them as things to be taken care of through concern may be a human being in a dire circumstance as with Ikemefuna (<i>Things Fall Apart) </i>the human group itself exposed to famine in what should be harvest time (<i>Arrow of God) </i>or the state which needs to be brought to its proper being as Heidegger would say (<i>No Longer at Ease </i>and <i>A Man of the People) </i>or human suffering calling to be relieved (<i>Anthills of the Savannah). </i>The novels are all in the tragic mode because intervention is under some kind of interdiction.</p>