Things fall apart Chinua Achebe ; with an introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah.
Material type: TextSeries: Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 135.New York : Everyman's Library /Knopf, 1992Description: xxi, 181 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0679446230
- PR 9387.9.A3 .T348 1992
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Fiction | DLSU-D HS Learning Resource Center Fiction | Fiction | PR 9387.9.A3 .T348 1992 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 3HSL2014000112 |
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.
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