Things fall apart
Achebe, Chinua.
Things fall apart Chinua Achebe ; with an introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah. - New York : Everyman's Library /Knopf, 1992. - xxi, 181 p. ; 22 cm. - Everyman's library ; 135. . - Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 135. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. xviii-xix)
The Historical and Cultural Context of Things Fall Apart -- Technique and Theme in Things Fall Apart -- Characters in Things Fall Apart -- Places in Things Fall Apart -- Map of Africa -- Map of Nigeria -- Images of Igbo Life -- Plot Analysis of Things Fall Apart -- "Going Home Was a Sad Awakening," Marjorie Coeyman, The Christian Science Monitor (news article) -- "An African Voice," interview with Chinua Achebe by Katie Bacon, Atlantic Unbound (interview) -- "The Second Coming," William Butler Yeats (poem) -- "Lament of the Sacred Python," Chinua Achebe (poem) -- from Kehinde, Buchi Emecheta (novel excerpt) -- "Heaven Is Not Closed," Bessie Head (short story) -- "Should My Tribal Past Shape Delia's Future?," Dympna Ugwu-Oju, Newsweek (personal essay)
[This book is] a simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger ... Uniquely ... African, at the same time it reveals [the author's] ... awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.-Back cover.
0679446230
Igbo (African people)--Fiction.
British--Nigeria--Fiction.
Men--Nigeria--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Nigeria--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
PR 9387.9.A3 / .T348 1992
Things fall apart Chinua Achebe ; with an introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah. - New York : Everyman's Library /Knopf, 1992. - xxi, 181 p. ; 22 cm. - Everyman's library ; 135. . - Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 135. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. xviii-xix)
The Historical and Cultural Context of Things Fall Apart -- Technique and Theme in Things Fall Apart -- Characters in Things Fall Apart -- Places in Things Fall Apart -- Map of Africa -- Map of Nigeria -- Images of Igbo Life -- Plot Analysis of Things Fall Apart -- "Going Home Was a Sad Awakening," Marjorie Coeyman, The Christian Science Monitor (news article) -- "An African Voice," interview with Chinua Achebe by Katie Bacon, Atlantic Unbound (interview) -- "The Second Coming," William Butler Yeats (poem) -- "Lament of the Sacred Python," Chinua Achebe (poem) -- from Kehinde, Buchi Emecheta (novel excerpt) -- "Heaven Is Not Closed," Bessie Head (short story) -- "Should My Tribal Past Shape Delia's Future?," Dympna Ugwu-Oju, Newsweek (personal essay)
[This book is] a simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger ... Uniquely ... African, at the same time it reveals [the author's] ... awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.-Back cover.
0679446230
Igbo (African people)--Fiction.
British--Nigeria--Fiction.
Men--Nigeria--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Nigeria--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
PR 9387.9.A3 / .T348 1992