Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195147642 ISBN 13: 9780195147643

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Isidore Okpewho is Professor of Africana Studies, English, and Comparative Literature at SUNY at Binghamton.

Review

"Okpewho has been particularly successful in the careful selection of these essays which make the novel as relevant as it ever has been. What is most satisfying is not only the high quality of most of the essays, but also their overall arrangement so that they seem to be in dialogue with one another. This creates a logical thread throughout the book, and it makes for an engaging read."--African Studies Quarterly

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0195147642
• ISBN 13: 9780195147643
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Okpewho Isidore