| Description |
x, 145 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Approaches to teaching world literature ; 37
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [130]-141) and index. |
| Contents |
Teaching Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe -- Chinua Achebe and the signs of the times / Simon Gikandi -- Following the author in Things fall apart / Emmanuel Obiechina -- Things fall apart in its time and place / Robert M. Wren -- Igbo as exceptional colonial subjects : fictionalizing an abnormal historical situation / Dan Izevbaye -- Politics of point of view : teaching Things fall apart / Ashton Nichols -- Paradoxical characterization of Okonkwo / Arlene A. Elder -- Matrical approach to Things fall apart : a poetics of epic and mythic paradigms / Ousseynou B. Traore -- "Tortoise and the Birds" : strategies of resistance in Things fall apart / Barbara Harlow -- Things fall apart and the literature of empire / Hunt Hawkins -- Third World novel as counterhistory : Things fall apart and Asturias's Men of maize / Edna Aizenberg -- Making men and history : Achebe and the politics of revisionism / Rhonda Cobham -- Postcolonial African novel and the dialogic imagination / Zohreh T. Sullivan -- Narrative, metacommentary, and politics in a "simple" story / Wahneema Lubiano -- Problem of realism in Things fall apart: a Marxist exegesis / Biodun Jeyifo -- Teaching Things fall apart in the humanities core course / Eric Sellin -- Teaching Things fall apart in a criticism course / Richard K. Priebe. |
| Subject |
Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart.
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Achebe, Chinua -- Study and teaching.
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Igbo (African people) in literature.
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| Added Author |
Lindfors, Bernth.
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| Added Title |
Things fall apart |
| ISBN |
0873525477 (cloth) : $34.00 |
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0873525485 (pbk.) : $19.00 |
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