Includes bibliographical references and index.

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