The Rhetorical Implications of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

by Egar, Emmanuel Edame

• ISBN13: 9780761817215
• ISBN10: 0761817212
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Amer

Summary

In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe articulates and dramatizes a unique and peculiar kind of rhetoric- a rhetoric that emphasizes that man, and not language, is the site for social interaction. The oracle and the bull are synthesized, metamorphosed, laced, and condensed to form an alchemy which produces a cohesive communal community as the end result. This African rhetoric displays a language that is innocent, unlike the Western European rhetoric where language dramatizes multiple voices. This critical text focuses on Achebe's rhetoric from the Aristotelian style.

Author Biography

Dr. Egar is an Assistant Professor of English at Paul Quinn College in Dallas, Texas

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	ix
Rhetorical Implications of the Theme in Things Fall Apart	1	(12)
Okonkwo	13	(4)
The Rhetorical Implications of Women and their Pain in Things Fall Apart	17	(10)
The Rhetorical Use of Proverbs	27	(8)
The English Version of Ibo Telling	35	(8)
The Rhetorical Implications of the Greek Connection in Things Fall Apart	43	(8)
The Omniscient Editor and Narrator	51	(8)
The Rhetorical Implications of the Opening and Closing of the Novel, Things Fall Apart	59	(10)
Conclusion	69	(2)
Bibliography	71	(6)
About the Author	77