Things fall apart, by Chinua Achebe / editor, M. Keith Booker, University of Arkansas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Booker, M. Keith, editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart.

Achebe, Chinua.

Achebe, Chinua--Criticism and interpretation.

Things fall apart (Achebe, Chinua).

Igbo (African people) in literature.

Nigeria--In literature.

Nigeria.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 322 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, California : Salem Press, [2011]

Summary:

"Chinua Achebe, the well regarded Nigerian novelist, is perhaps best known for his novel Things Fall Apart, published in 1958. After a short introduction editor Booker (comparative literature and cultural studies, U. of Arkansas), presents a series of essays and excerpted chapters from other works critically examining Achebe's themes. Four essays were written especially for this volume. A complete bibliography of Achebe's works is included."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

On Things fall apart / M. Keith Booker

Biography of Chinua Achebe / Norbert Mazari

The Paris review perspective / Petrina Crockford for The Paris review

Critical contexts

Things fall apart: cultural and historical contexts / Joseph McLaren

The critical reception of Things fall apart / Amy Sickels

An adequate revolution: Achebe writing Africa anew / Thomas Jay Lynn

"You must not stand in one place": reading Things fall apart in multiple contexts / Matthew J. Bolton

Critical readings

Things fall apart / Margaret Laurence

Chinua Achebe: Things fall apart / M. Keith Booker

The centre holds: a study of Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / David Cook

Principle and practice: the logic of cultural violence in Achebe's Things fall apart / David Hoegberg

The possibilities and pitfalls of ethnographic readings: narrative complexity in Things fall apart / Carey Snyder

Rhythm and narrative method in Achebe's Things fall apart / B. Eugene McCarthy

Achebe's sense of an ending: history and tragedy in Things fall apart / Richard Begam

Okonkwo and his mother: Things fall apart and issues of gender in the constitution of African postcolonial discourse / Biodun Jeyifo

Masculinity, power, and language in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo

The plight of a hero in Achebe's Things fall apart / Patrick C. Nnoromele

Okonkwo's suicide as an affirmative act: do things really fall apart? / Alan R Friesen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Things fall apart, by Chinua Achebe.

ISBN:

9781587657122

1587657120

OCLC:

721900560