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Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart

Bloom, Harold. (Added Author).

Summary: Critical essays on Chinua Achebe's "Things fall apart."

Record details

  • ISBN: 0791063364
  • ISBN: 9780791063361
  • ISBN: 0791071715
  • ISBN: 9780791071717
  • Physical Description: print
    vii, 216 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, ©2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-203) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Achebe's sense of an ending : history and tragedy in Things fall apart / Richard Begam -- Problems of gender and history in the teaching of Things fall apart / Rhonda Cobham -- Rhetorical implications of the theme in Things fall apart / Emmanuel Edame Egar -- Sophisticated primitivism : the syncretism of oral and literate modes in Achebe's Things fall apart / Abdul JanMohamed -- Achebe and duality in Igbo thought / Anthonia C. Kalu -- How the centre 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 -- Missionaries and converts : religion and colonial intrusion in Things fall apart / Joseph McClaren -- Igbo cosmology and the parameters of individual accomplishment in Things fall apart / Clement Okafor -- Genealogical determinism in Achebe's Things fall apart / Imafedia Okhamafe -- Character and society in Achebe's Things fall apart / Eustace Palmer -- The proverb, realism and Achebe : a study of ethical consciousness / Richard K. Priebe -- Native identity and alienation in Richard Wright's Native son and Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart : a cross-cultural analysis / Joko Sengova.
Subject: Achebe, Chinua
Achebe, Chinua Criticism and interpretation
Igbo (African people) in literature
Nigeria In literature

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.

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  • 1 current hold with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Covington Branch 828 A177zt 2003 (Text) 33126009645924 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Erlanger Branch 828 A177zt 2003 (Text) 33126009645916 Adult Nonfiction Available -

  • Baker & Taylor
    A critical overview of the work features the writings of Richard Begam, Rhonda Cobham, Emmanuel Edame Egar, Clement Okafor, Richard K. Priebe, and other scholars.

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