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9780873525473

Approaches to Teaching Achebe's Things Fall Apart

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    9780873525473

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    0873525477

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1992-05-01
  • Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

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Table of Contents

Preface to the Series vii
Preface to the Volume ix
PART ONE: MATERIALS
Bernth Lindfors
Editions
3(12)
Reference Works
Bibliographies
3(1)
Biographical Sources and Interviews
4(1)
Igbo Studies
4(1)
Readings for Students and Teachers
Background Studies: Anthropology, History, Politics, Religion
5(1)
Critical Commentary
6(4)
Audiovisual Aids
The Story
10(1)
The Author
10(5)
PART TWO: APPROACHES
Introduction
15(114)
The Author as Teacher
Teaching Things Fall Apart
20(5)
Chinua Achebe
Teaching the Author
Chinua Achebe and the Signs of the Times
25(6)
Simon Gikandi
Following the Author in Things Fall Apart
31(7)
Emmanuel Obiechina
Teaching Context
Things Fall Apart in Its Time and Place
38(7)
Robert M. Wren
The Igbo as Exceptional Colonial Subjects: Fictionalizing an Abnormal Historical Situation
45(7)
Dan Izevbaye
Teaching Texture
The Politics of Point of View: Teaching Things Fall Apart
52(6)
Ashton Nichols
The Paradoxical Characterization of Okonkwo
58(7)
Arlene A. Elder
Traditional Paradigms and Modern Intertextuality
Matrical Approach to Things Fall Apart: A Poetics of Epic and Mythic Paradigms
65(9)
Ousseynou B. Traore
``The Tortoise and the Birds'': Strategies of Resistance in Things Fall Apart
74(6)
Barbara Harlow
Things Fall Apart and the Literature of Empire
80(5)
Hunt Hawkins
The Third World Novel as Counterhistory: Things Fall Apart and Asturias's Men of Maize
85(6)
Edna Aizenberg
Challenging Approaches
Making Men and History: Achebe and the Politics of Revisionism
91(10)
Rhonda Cobham
The Postcolonial African Novel and the Dialogic Imagination
101(6)
Zohreh T. Sullivan
Narrative, Metacommentary, and Politics in a ``Simple'' Story
107(5)
Wahneema Lubiano
The Problem of Realism in Things Fall Apart: A Marxist Exegesis
112(6)
Biodun Jeyifo
Specific Courses
Teaching Things Fall Apart in the Humanities Core Course
118(5)
Eric Sellin
Teaching Things Fall Apart in a Criticism Course
123(6)
Richard K. Priebe
Contributors and Survey Participants 129(1)
Works Cited 130(12)
Index 142

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