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9780791063361

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791063361

  • ISBN10:

    0791063364

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-12-01
  • Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
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Summary

A critical overview of the work features the writings of Richard Begam, Rhonda Cobham, Emmanuel Edame Egar, Clement Okafor, Richard K. Priebe, and other scholars.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note vii
Introduction 1(4)
Harold Bloom
Achebe's Sense of an Ending: History and Tragedy in things Fall Apart
5(14)
Richard Begam
Problems of Gender and History in the Teaching of things Fall Apart
19(12)
Rhonda Cobham
Rhetorical Implications of the Theme in Things Fall Apart
31(10)
Emmanuel Edame Egar
Sophisticated Primitivism: The Syncretism of Oral and Literate Modes in Achebe's Things Fall Apart
41(16)
Abdul FanMohamed
Achebe and Duality in Igbo Thought
57(14)
Anthonia C. Kalu
How the Centre is Made to Hold in Things Fall Apart
71(18)
Neil Ten Kortenaar
The Metamorphosis of Piety in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
89(14)
Clayton G. MacKenzie
Missionaries and Converts: Religion and Colonial Intrusion in Things Fall Apart
103(10)
Joseph McClaren
Igbo Cosmology and the Parameters of Individual Accomplishment in Things Fall Apart
113(12)
Clement Okafor
Genealogical Determinism in Achebe's Things Fall Apart
125(20)
Imafedia Okhamafe
Character and Society in Achebe's Things Fall Apart
145(12)
Eustace Palmer
The Proverb, Realism and Achebe: A Study of Ethical Consciousness
157(10)
Richard K. Priebe
Native Identity and Alienation in Richard Wright's Native Son and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
167(22)
Joko Sengova
Chronology 189(8)
Contributors 197(4)
Bibliography 201(4)
Acknowledgments 205(2)
Index 207

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Excerpts

This volume gathers together some of the best critical essays on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Written in very straightforward prose, the simplicity of style belies the complexity of the novel in which there are no absolute stereotypes and no easy strategies for separating truth and fiction.

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