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"Things Fall Apart" in Literary Themes for Students: War and Peace
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2006
Presents a myriad of viewpoints, so that modern readers can begin to grasp the complexities of war and its impact. Such stories give voice to the individuals who fight and are fought against, who are injured, who suffer on the battlefield and at home, and who, inevitably, can no longer speak for themselves. Examines dominant and recurring subthemes in the literature of war; including survival, terrorism, leadership, and genocide.
"Things Fall Apart" in Novels for Students
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 1997
Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism.
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, 1958-2008 by David Whittaker (Volume Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9789042033962
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Since its publication in 1958, Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" has won global critical and popular acclaim. This collection, originating in a conference held in London to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the novel's first publication, opens with a fascinating, insightful, and wide-ranging interview with Achebe. The essays that following explore contemporary critical responses and the novel's historical and cultural contexts.
Conversations with Chinua Achebe by Bernth Lindfors (Editor)
Call Number: PR9387.9.A3 Z58 1997
ISBN: 0878059296
Publication Date: 1997-10-01
Chinua Achebe's books are being read throughout the Engish-speaking world. They have been translated into more than fifty languages. His publishers estimate that Engish-more than eight million copies of his first novel Things Fall Apart (1958) have been sold. As a consequence, he is the best known and most widely studied African author. His distinguished books of fiction and nonfiction include No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, Morning Yet on Creation Day, Christmas in Biafra, and others. Achebe often has been called the inventor of the African novel. Although he modestly denies the title, it is true that modem African literature would not have flowered so rapidly and spectacularly had he not led the way by telling Africa's story from a distinctively African point of view.
Postcolonial contraventions : cultural readings of race, imperialism, and transnationalism by Chrisman, Laura.
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1781700133
Publication Date: 2018, 2003
Both polemical and scholarly, this text is challenging in its analysis of black Atlantic studies, colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial theory. Chrisman provides important paradigms for understanding imperial literature, Englishness, and black transnationalism.
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe by M. Keith Booker (Editor); Salem Press Editors
Call Number: PR9387.9.A3 T5369 2011
ISBN: 9781587657115
Publication Date: 2010-10-01
Introductory essays reflect on Achebe's poineering achievement and evaluate the enduring, internations poularity of Things Fall Apart. Also included is a comparison of Things Fall Apart to major literary works within the westerm canon, such as the Odyssey and the Illiad. Other essays discuss the depeiction of gender, the presentation of cultural violence, and the portayal of colonization within the novel.

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