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1 online resource (viii, 322 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Critical insights
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Critical insights.
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| 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. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
On Things fall apart / M. Keith Booker -- Biography of Chinua Achebe / Norbert Mazari -- Paris review perspective / Petrina Crockford for The Paris review -- Critical contexts -- Things fall apart: cultural and historical contexts / Joseph McLaren -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
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Concurrent user level: 1 user |
| Subject |
Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart.
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Achebe, Chinua -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Achebe, Chinua. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Igbo (African people) in literature.
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Igbo (African people) in literature. |
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Nigeria -- In literature.
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Nigeria. |
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Things fall apart (Achebe, Chinua) |
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Literature. |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Booker, M. Keith, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Things fall apart, by Chinua Achebe. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, ©2011 9781587657115 (DLC) 2010030196 (OCoLC)651153729 |
| ISBN |
9781587657122 (electronic book) |
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1587657120 (electronic book) |
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9781587657115 (alkaline paper) |
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1587657112 (alkaline paper) |
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