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Things fall apart, by Chinua Achebe

Booker, M. Keith. (Editor).

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." --

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  • ISBN: 9781587657115 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 1587657112 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    viii, 322 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2011.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.

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