C. L. Innes

Life
b. Sidney, Australia; ed. there and in USA as post-grad. at Oregon Univ., Tuskegee Institute, Alabama (1968-70); and doctorate in comparative lit. at Cornell with a thesis on Black and Irish Cultural Nationalism; lect. at Univ. of Massechussets; ed. Okike, with Chinua Achebe; appt. exchange-lecturer at Kent, 1975, and remained in permanent post in the English School with Jan Montefiore, et al.; issued author of The Devil’s Own Mirror: The Irishman and the African in Modern Literature (1990) and, Women and Nation in Irish Literature and Society, 1880-1935 (1993).

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Works
Critical writings
  • Critical perspectives on Chinua Achebe, ed., with Bernth Lindfors (London: Heinemann 1979), 315pp. [see details].
  • Chinua Achebe - “Arrow of God”: A Critical View, [ser. ed., Yolande Cantù; British Council] (Collins 1985).
  • Chinua Achebe: A Critical Study (Cambridge UP 1990), xvii, 199pp.
  • The Devil’s Own Mirror: The Irishman and the African in Modern Literature (Washington, DC: Three Continents Press [1990]), vii, 113pp.
  • Woman and Nation in Irish Literature and Society, 1880-1935 (Athens: Georgia UP; Harvester Wheatsheaf 1993), xii, 208pp.
  • A History of Black and South Asian Writing in Britain, 1700 - 2000 (2002), xxi, 308.
Anthology
  • Sel., with Achebe, African Short Stories (London: Heinemann 1985); xvi, 159pp.
Irish studies
  • ‘“A Voice in Directing the Affairs of Ireland”, L’Irlande libre, The Shan Van Vocht, and Bean na h-Eireann’, in Paul Hyland and Neil Sammells, eds., Irish Writing, Subversion and Exile (Macmillan 1991), pp.146-58 [on Maud Gonne - as supra]

Bibliographical details
Critical perspectives on Chinua Achebe, ed., with Bernth Lindfors (Washington, D.C. , Three Continents Press 1978; London: Heinemann 1979), 315pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; General essays: The Tragic Conflict in the Novels of Chinua Achebe, by Abiola Irele; Cultural Norms and Modes of Perception in Achebe’s Fiction, by Lloyd W. Brown; Politics and the African Writer, by Kolawole Ogungbesan; The Palm-oil with which Achebe’s words are Eaten, by Bernth Lindfors; Language and Action in the Novels of Chinua Achebe, by Gareth Griffiths; Things Fall Apart: Yeats and Achebe, by A.G. Stock; Narrative Techniques in Things Fall Apart, by Solomon O. Iyasere; Language, poetry and doctrine in Things Fall Apart, by C.L. Innes; Symbolic structure in Things Fall Apart, by Donald J. Weinstock and Cathy Ramadan; Fire and Transition in Things Fall Apart, by Bu-Buakei Jabbi; No Longer at Ease: Language as a theme in No longer at ease, by Felicity Riddy; Eliot and Achebe: an analysis of some formal and philosophical qualities of No Longer at Ease, by Roderick Wilson. Arrow of God: The human dimension of history in Arrow of God, by Emmanuel Obiechina; Idols of the den, by M.M. Mahood; Mister Johnson and the complexity of Arrow of God, by Robert M. Wren; A Source for Arrow of God, by Charles Nnolim; A source for Arrow of God - A Response, by C.L. Innes; A Man of the People: Achebe’s African Parable, by Bernth Lindfors; A Man of the People, by David Carroll; Chinua Achebe: A Man of the People, by Ngugi wa Thiong’o; Poetry. Chinua Achebe’s Poems of regeneration, by Philip Rogers. Bibl. references (pages 294-310) and index.

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References

There is a web page at University of Kent [link].

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Quotation
Women and Nation: ‘Irish portrayals of their country fall into two categories: those that depict Ireland as a maiden, and those that depict her [sic] as a mother.’ (C. L. Innes, (Women and Nation in Ireland Literature and Society, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf 1993, pp.15-16).

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