Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart : a casebook / edited by Isidore Okpewho.

Contributor(s): Okpewho, Isidore Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Casebooks in criticismPublication details: Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2003. Description: viii, 275 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 0195147634 (alk. paper); 0195147642 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780195147636 Subject(s): Igbo (African people) in literature | Things fall apart (Achebe)DDC classification: 823.914 LOC classification: PR9387.9.A3 | T52397 2003Online resources: WorldCat details

Contents:

TOC The bAfrican writer and the English language / Chinua Achebe -- Igbo cosmology and the parameters of individual accomplishment in Things fall apart / Clement Okafor -- Eternal sacred order versus conventional wisdom: a consideration of moral culpability in the killing of Ikemefuna in Things fall apart / Damian U. Opata -- "When a man fails alone": a man and his Chi in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Harold Scheub -- How the center is made to hold in Things fall apart / Neil Ten Kortenaar -- The metamorphosis of piety in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Clayton G. Mackenzie -- Problems of gender and history in the teaching of Things fall apart / Rhonda Cobham -- Okonkwo and his mother: Things fall apart and issues of gender in the constitution of African postcolonial discourse / Biodun Jeyifo -- Fire and transition in Things fall apart / Bu-Buakei Jabbi -- Realism, criticism, and the disguises of both: a reading of Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart with an evaluation of the criticism relating to it / Ato Quayson -- An interview with Chinua Achebe / Charles H. Rowell.

Summary: Summary: Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer and "Things Fall Apart" (1958) the most renowned and widely read African novel in the global literary canon. This collection explores the artistic, Read more...

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Non-fiction	823.914 CHI 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		17737

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TOC The bAfrican writer and the English language / Chinua Achebe --
Igbo cosmology and the parameters of individual accomplishment in Things fall apart / Clement Okafor --
Eternal sacred order versus conventional wisdom: a consideration of moral culpability in the killing of Ikemefuna in Things fall apart / Damian U. Opata --
"When a man fails alone": a man and his Chi in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Harold Scheub --
How the center is made to hold in Things fall apart / Neil Ten Kortenaar --
The metamorphosis of piety in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Clayton G. Mackenzie --
Problems of gender and history in the teaching of Things fall apart / Rhonda Cobham --
Okonkwo and his mother: Things fall apart and issues of gender in the constitution of African postcolonial discourse / Biodun Jeyifo --
Fire and transition in Things fall apart / Bu-Buakei Jabbi --
Realism, criticism, and the disguises of both: a reading of Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart with an evaluation of the criticism relating to it / Ato Quayson --
An interview with Chinua Achebe / Charles H. Rowell.

Summary:
Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer and "Things Fall Apart" (1958) the most renowned and widely read African novel in the global literary canon. This collection explores the artistic, Read more...

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