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Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart : a casebook / edited by Isidore Okpewho.
Van Pelt Library PR9387.9.A3 T52397 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Casebooks in criticism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart.
- Achebe, Chinua.
- Igbo (African people) in literature.
- Nigeria--In literature.
- Nigeria.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 275 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global literary canon. Translated into close to sixty languages, Things Fall Apart is the novel that inaugurated the long and continuing tradition of postcolonial inquiry into the problematic relations between the West and the countries of the Third World that were once European colonies. This collection explores the artistic, multicultural, and global significance of Things Fall Apart from a variety of critical perspectives. The essays selected for this casebook represent the most important and well-established critical work written on the novel to date. This volume also contains an editor's introduction, an interview with Chinua Achebe, and suggestions for further reading.
- Contents:
- The African Writer and the English Language / Chinua Achebe 55
- Igbo Cosmology and the Parameters of Individual Accomplishment in Things Fall Apart / Clement Okafor 67
- Eternal Sacred Order versus Conventional Wisdom: A Consideration of Moral Culpability in the Killing of Ikemefuna in Things Fall Apart / Damian U. Opata 83
- "When a Man Fails Alone": A Man and His Chi in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart / Harold Scheub 95
- How the Center Is Made to Hold in Things Fall Apart / Nfil Ten Kortfnaar 123
- The Metamorphosis of Piety in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart / Clayton G. Mackfnzie 147
- Problems of Gender and History in the Teaching of Things Fall Apart / Rhonda Cobham 165
- Okonkwo and His Mother: Things Fall Apart and Issues of Gender in the Constitution of African Postcolonial Discourse / Biodun Jeyifo 181
- Fire and Transition in Things Fall Apart / Bu-Buakei Jabbi 201
- Realism, Criticism, and the Disguises of Both: A Reading of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart with an Evaluation of the Criticism Relating to It / Ato Quayson 221
- An Interview with Chinua Achebe / Charles H. Rowell 249.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-275).
- ISBN:
- 0195147634
- 0195147642
- OCLC:
- 50511429
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