Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart : a casebook
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Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart : a casebook
(Casebooks in criticism)
Oxford University Press, c2003
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Things fall apart
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-275)
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780195147636
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1: Chinua Achebe: The African Writer and the English Language
2: Clement Okafor: Igbo Cosmology and the Parameters of Individual Accomplishment in Things Fall Apart
3: : Damian U. Opata: Eternal Sacred Order versus Conventional Wisdom: A Consideration of Moral Culpability in the Killing of Ikemefuna in Things Fall Apart
4: Harold Scheub: "When a Man Fails Alone": A Man and his chi in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
5: Neil ten Kortenaar: How the Center is Made to Hold in Things Fall Apart
6: Clayton G. MacKenzie: The Metamorphosis of Piety in Things Fall Apart
7: Rhonda Cobham: Problems of Gender and History in the Teaching of Things Fall Apart
8: Biodun Jeyifo: Okonkwo and His Mother: Things Fall Apart and Issues of Gender in the Constitution of African Postcolonial Discourse
9: Bu-Buakei Jabbi: Fire and Transition in Things Fall Apart
10: Ato Quayson: Realism, Criticism, and the Disguises of Both: A Reading of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart with an evaluation of Criticism Relating To It
11: Charles H. Rowell: An interview with Chinua Achebe
Suggested Reading
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: pbk. ISBN 9780195147643
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1: Chinua Achebe: The African Writer and the English Language
2: Clement Okafor: Igbo Cosmology and the Parameters of Individual Accomplishment in Things Fall Apart
3: Damian U. Opata: Eternal Sacred Order versus Conventional Wisdom: A Consideration of Moral Culpability in the Killing of Ikemefuna in Things Fall Apart
4: Harold Scheub: "When a Man Fails Alone": A Man and his chi in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
5: Neil ten Kortenaar: How the Center is Made to Hold in Things Fall Apart
6: Clayton G. MacKenzie: The Metamorphosis of Piety in Things Fall Apart
7: Rhonda Cobham: Problems of Gender and History in the Teaching of Things Fall Apart
8: Biodun Jeyifo: Okonkwo and His Mother: Things Fall Apart and Issues of Gender in the Constitution of African Postcolonial Discourse
9: Bu-Buakei Jabbi: Fire and Transition in Things Fall Apart
10: Ato Quayson: Realism, Criticism, and the Disguises of Both: A Reading of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart with an evaluation of Criticism Relating To It
11: Charles H. Rowell: An interview with Chinua Achebe
Suggested Reading
1: The African Writer and the English Language: Chinua Achebe
2: Clement Okafor: Igbo Cosmology and the Parameters of Individual Accomplishment in Things Fall Apart
3: Damian U. Opata: Eternal Sacred Order versus Conventional Wisdom: A Consideration of Moral Culpability in the Killing of Ikemefuna in Things Fall Apart
4: Harold Scheub: When a Man Fails Alone: A Man and his Chi in Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart
5: Neil ten Kortenaar: How the Center is Made to Hold in Things Fall Apart
6: Clayton G. MacKenzie: The Metamorphosis of Piety in Things Fall Apart
7: Rhonda Cobham: Problems of Gender and History in the Teaching of Things Fall Apart
8: Biodun Jeyifo: Okonkwo and His Mother: Things Fall Apart and Issues of Gender in the Constitution of African Postcolonial Discourse
9: Bu-Buakei Jabbi: Fire and Transition in Things Fall Apart
10: Ato Quayson: Realism, Criticism, and the Disguises of Both: A Reading of Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart with an Evaluation of Criticism Relating To It
11: Charles H. Rowell: An interview with Chinua Achebe
Suggested Reading
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