A short history of Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart /Terri Ochiagha.
Ochiagha, Terri,
A short history of Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart /Terri Ochiagha. - Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource - Ohio short histories of Africa .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre -- The world of stories -- Encounters with the colonial library -- The lost manuscript and other harrowing adventures -- The blood-dimmed tide is loosed -- First impressions -- Things fall apart and its critics -- Of canons, sons, and daughters -- Spiritus mundi -- Artistic interactions -- Adaptations, appropriations, and mimesis -- Things fall apart's worldwide readers -- Conclusion: Whither things fall apart?
In the accessible and concise A Short History of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Terri Ochiagha asks new questions and brings wider attention to unfamiliar but crucial elements of the story, including new insights into questions of canonicity, and into literary, historiographical, and precolonial aesthetic influences.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780821446546
2018043018
Achebe, Chinua --
Achebe, Chinua--Criticism and interpretation.
Achebe, Chinua--Themes, motives.
Nigerian fiction (English)--History and criticism.
African fiction (English)--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
PR9387 / .S567 2018
A short history of Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart /Terri Ochiagha. - Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource - Ohio short histories of Africa .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre -- The world of stories -- Encounters with the colonial library -- The lost manuscript and other harrowing adventures -- The blood-dimmed tide is loosed -- First impressions -- Things fall apart and its critics -- Of canons, sons, and daughters -- Spiritus mundi -- Artistic interactions -- Adaptations, appropriations, and mimesis -- Things fall apart's worldwide readers -- Conclusion: Whither things fall apart?
In the accessible and concise A Short History of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Terri Ochiagha asks new questions and brings wider attention to unfamiliar but crucial elements of the story, including new insights into questions of canonicity, and into literary, historiographical, and precolonial aesthetic influences.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780821446546
2018043018
Achebe, Chinua --
Achebe, Chinua--Criticism and interpretation.
Achebe, Chinua--Themes, motives.
Nigerian fiction (English)--History and criticism.
African fiction (English)--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
PR9387 / .S567 2018