Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart A Casebook [Paperback]

Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, andThings 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 Apartis 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 ofThings Fall Apartfrom 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.

Introduction
1. The African Writer and the English Language,Chinua Achebe
2. Igbo Cosmology and the Parameters of Individual Accomplishment inThings Fall Apart,Clement Okafor
3. Eternal Sacred Order versus Conventional Wisdom: A Consideration of Moral Culpability in the Killing of Ikemefuna inThings Fall Apart,Damian U. Opata
4. When a Man Fails Alone : A Man and hischiin Chinua Achebe'sThings Fall Apart,Harold Scheub
5. How the Center is Made to Hold inThings Fall Apart,Neil ten Kortenaar
6. The Metamorphosis of Piety inThings Fall Apart,Clayton G. MacKenzie
7. Problems of Gender and History in the Teaching ofThings Fall Apart,Rhonda Cobham
8. Okonkwo and His Mother:Things Fall Apartand Issues of Gender in the Constitution of African Postcolonial Discourse,Biodun Jeyifo
9. Fire and Transition inThings Fall Apart,Bu-Buakei Jabbi
10. Realism, Criticism, and the Disguises of Both: A Reading of Chinua Achebe'sThings Falll#+