A short history of Chinua Achebe's Things fall Apart / Terri Ochiagha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ochiagha, Terri, author.

Series:

Ohio short histories of Africa.

Ohio short histories of Africa

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart.

Achebe, Chinua.

African fiction (English).

Nigerian fiction (English).

Themes, motives.

African fiction (English)--History and criticism.

Nigerian fiction (English)--History and criticism.

Things fall apart (Achebe, Chinua).

Physical Description:

1 online resource 1 online(146 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2018]

Summary:

The publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958) is heralded as the inaugural moment of modern African fiction, and the book remains the most widely read African novel of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it has sold more than twelve million copies, and has become a canonical reading in schools the world over. While Things Fall Apart is neither the first African novel to be published in the West nor necessarily the most critically valued, its iconic status has surpassed even that of its author.Until now-in the sixtieth anniversary year of its publication-there has not been an updated history that moves beyond the book's commonly discussed contexts and themes. In the accessible and concise A Short History of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Terri Ochiagha provides that history, asking new questions and bringing to wider attention unfamiliar but crucial elements of the Things Fall Apart story. These include new insights into questions of canonicity and into literary, historiographical, and precolonial aesthetic influences. She also assesses adaptations and appropriations not just in films but in theater, hip-hop, and popular literary genres such as Onitsha Market Literature.

Contents:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The world of stories

Encounters with the colonial library

The lost manuscript and other harrowing adventures

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed

First impressions

Things fall apart and its critics

Of canons, sons, and daughters

Spiritus mundi

Artistic interactions

Adaptations, appropriations, and mimesis

Things fall apart's worldwide readers

Conclusion: Whither things fall apart?

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821446546

0821446541

OCLC:

1300918273