Things fall apart, by Chinua Achebe /
editor, M. Keith Booker.
- Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2011.
- viii, 322 p. ; 24 cm.
- Critical insights .
- Critical insights. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On Things fall apart / Biography of Chinua Achebe / The Paris review perspective / Things fall apart: cultural and historical contexts / The critical reception of Things fall apart / An adequate revolution: Achebe writing Africa anew / "You must not stand in one place": reading Things fall apart in multiple contexts / Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe: Things fall apart / The centre holds: a study of Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Principle and practice: the logic of cultural violence in Achebe's Things fall apart / The possibilities and pitfalls of ethnographic readings: narrative complexity in Things fall apart / Rhythm and narrative method in Achebe's Things fall apart / Achebe's sense of an ending: history and tragedy in Things fall apart / Okonkwo and his mother: Things fall apart and issues of gender in the constitution of African postcolonial discourse / Masculinity, power, and language in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / The plight of a hero in Achebe's Things fall apart / Okonkwo's suicide as an affirmative act: do things really fall apart? / M. Keith Booker -- Norbert Mazari -- Petrina Crockford for The Paris review -- Joseph McLaren -- Amy Sickels -- Thomas Jay Lynn -- Matthew J. Bolton -- Margaret Laurence -- M. Keith Booker -- David Cook -- David Hoegberg -- Carey Snyder -- B. Eugene McCarthy -- Richard Begam -- Biodun Jeyifo -- Ada Uzoamaka Azodo -- Patrick C. Nnoromele -- Alan R Friesen. Critical contexts -- Critical readings --