Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bloom, Harold
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2009.
Edition:New edition.
Series:Blooms's modern critical interpretations
Subjects:
Achebe, Chinua. > Things fall apart.
Igbo (African people) in literature.
Nigeria > In literature.
Physical Description:vii, 221 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Chinua Achebe writing culture: representations of gender and tradition in Things fall apart / Kwadwo Osei-Nyame
  • The portrayal of Igbo culture in Zulu: a descriptive analysis of the translation of Achebe's Things fall apart into Zulu
  • D. N. Mkhize
  • The plight of a hero in Achebe's Things fall apart / Patrick C. Nnoromele
  • Undignified details: the colonial subject of law / Ravit Reichman
  • "A mouth with which to tell the story": silence, violence, and speech in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Joseph R. Slaughter
  • Realising irony's post/colonial promise: global sense and local meaning in Things fall apart and "Ruins of a great house" / Mac Fenwick
  • Making use of the past in Things fall apart / Oliver Lovesey
  • The depiction of masculinity in classic Nigerian literature / Frank Salamone
  • Problematizing polygyny in the historical novels of Chinua Achebe: the role of the Western feminist scholar / Andrea Powell Wolfe
  • The possibilities and pitfalls of ethnographic readings: narrative complexity in Things fall apart / Carey Snyder.