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Chinua Achebe´s Things Fall Apart: A Casebook
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Paperback. Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global literary canon. The essays collected in this casebook explore the work's artistic, multicultural, and global significance from a variety of critical perspectives. Editor(s): Okpewho, Isidore. Series: Casebooks in Criticism. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global literary canon. Translated into close to sixty languages, Things Fall Apart is the novel that inaugurated the long and continuing tradition of postcolonial inquiry into the problematic relations between the West and the countries of the Third World that were once European colonies. This collection explores the artistic, multicultural, and global significance of Things Fall Apart from a variety of critical perspectives. The essays selected for this casebook represent the most important and well-established ... Read more
Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global literary canon. Translated into close to sixty languages, Things Fall Apart is the novel that inaugurated the long and continuing tradition of postcolonial inquiry into the problematic relations between the West and the countries of the Third World that were once European colonies. This collection explores the artistic, multicultural, and global significance of Things Fall Apart from a variety of critical perspectives. The essays selected for this casebook represent the most important and well-established ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Oxford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Casebooks in Criticism
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780195147643
SKU
V9780195147643
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About Okpewho
Isidore Okpewho is Professor of Africana Studies, English, and Comparative Literature at SUNY at Binghamton.
Reviews for Chinua Achebe´s Things Fall Apart: A Casebook
Okpewho has been particularly successful in the careful selection of these essays which make the novel as relevant as it ever has been. What is most satisfying is not only the high quality of most of the essays, but also their overall arrangement so that they seem to be in dialogue with one another. This creates a logical thread throughout ... Read more