Description
| Product ID: | 9780195147643 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Casebooks in Criticism |
| Title: | Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart |
| Subtitle: | A Casebook |
| Authors: | Author: Isidore Okpewho |
| Page Count: | 284 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Asia, English |
| Description: | 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. The essays collected in this casebook explore the work's artistic, multicultural, and global significance from a variety of critical perspectives. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2003-05-29 |
