Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Casebook

Neuausgabe 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-514763-6
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

Reihe: Casebooks in Criticism

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 critical work written on the novel to date. This volume also contains an editor's introduction, an interview with Chinua Achebe, and suggestions for further reading.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of literature and literary criticism

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hargraves, Orin

Okpewho, Isidore

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Englisch, Englische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Über Autor(innen)

ISIDORE OKPEWHO, Professor of Africana Studies, English, and Comparative Literature, State University of New York, at Binghamton