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Things fall apart, by Chinua Achebe / M. Keith Booker, editor.

Contributor(s): Booker, M. Keith.
Series: Critical insights.Pasadena, CA : Salem Press, c2011Description: viii, 322 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781587657115 (v. 1 : alk. paper).Subject(s): Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart | Igbo (African people) in literature | Nigeria -- In literatureGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
On Things fall apart / M. Keith Booker -- Biography of Chinua Achebe / Norbert Mazari -- The Paris review perspective / Petrina Crockford for The Paris review -- Critical contexts -- Things fall apart: cultural and historical contexts / Joseph McLaren -- The critical reception of Things fall apart / Amy Sickels -- An adequate revolution: Achebe writing Africa anew / Thomas Jay Lynn -- "You must not stand in one place": reading Things fall apart in multiple contexts / Matthew J. Bolton -- Critical readings -- Things fall apart / Margaret Laurence -- Chinua Achebe: Things fall apart / M. Keith Booker -- The centre holds: a study of Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / David Cook -- Principle and practice: the logic of cultural violence in Achebe's Things fall apart / David Hoegberg -- The possibilities and pitfalls of ethnographic readings: narrative complexity in Things fall apart / Carey Snyder -- Rhythm and narrative method in Achebe's Things fall apart / B. Eugene McCarthy -- Achebe's sense of an ending: history and tragedy in Things fall apart / Richard Begam -- Okonkwo and his mother: Things fall apart and issues of gender in the constitution of African postcolonial discourse / Biodun Jeyifo -- Masculinity, power, and language in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo -- The plight of a hero in Achebe's Things fall apart / Patrick C. Nnoromele -- Okonkwo's suicide as an affirmative act: do things really fall apart? / Alan R Friesen.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-309) and index.

On Things fall apart / M. Keith Booker -- Biography of Chinua Achebe / Norbert Mazari -- The Paris review perspective / Petrina Crockford for The Paris review -- Critical contexts -- Things fall apart: cultural and historical contexts / Joseph McLaren -- The critical reception of Things fall apart / Amy Sickels -- An adequate revolution: Achebe writing Africa anew / Thomas Jay Lynn -- "You must not stand in one place": reading Things fall apart in multiple contexts / Matthew J. Bolton -- Critical readings -- Things fall apart / Margaret Laurence -- Chinua Achebe: Things fall apart / M. Keith Booker -- The centre holds: a study of Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / David Cook -- Principle and practice: the logic of cultural violence in Achebe's Things fall apart / David Hoegberg -- The possibilities and pitfalls of ethnographic readings: narrative complexity in Things fall apart / Carey Snyder -- Rhythm and narrative method in Achebe's Things fall apart / B. Eugene McCarthy -- Achebe's sense of an ending: history and tragedy in Things fall apart / Richard Begam -- Okonkwo and his mother: Things fall apart and issues of gender in the constitution of African postcolonial discourse / Biodun Jeyifo -- Masculinity, power, and language in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo -- The plight of a hero in Achebe's Things fall apart / Patrick C. Nnoromele -- Okonkwo's suicide as an affirmative act: do things really fall apart? / Alan R Friesen.

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