Things fall apart, by Chinua Achebe / editor, M. Keith Booker, University of Arkansas.
ISBN:
9781587657122
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Things fall apart, by Chinua Achebe / editor, M. Keith Booker, University of Arkansas.
Author:
Booker, M. Keith, editor.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 322 pages).
Series:
Critical insights
Contents:
On Things fall apart / Biography of Chinua Achebe / The Paris review perspective / Things fall apart: cultural and historical contexts / The critical reception of Things fall apart / An adequate revolution: Achebe writing Africa anew / "You must not stand in one place": reading Things fall apart in multiple contexts / Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe: Things fall apart / The centre holds: a study of Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Principle and practice: the logic of cultural violence in Achebe's Things fall apart / The possibilities and pitfalls of ethnographic readings: narrative complexity in Things fall apart / Rhythm and narrative method in Achebe's Things fall apart / Achebe's sense of an ending: history and tragedy in Things fall apart / Okonkwo and his mother: Things fall apart and issues of gender in the constitution of African postcolonial discourse / Masculinity, power, and language in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / The plight of a hero in Achebe's Things fall apart / Okonkwo's suicide as an affirmative act: do things really fall apart?
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Electronic Resources
Publication Date:
2011
Publication Information:
Pasadena, California :
Salem Press,
[2011]
©2011