TY - BOOK AU - Ochiagha,Terri TI - A short history of Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart /Terri Ochiagha T2 - Ohio short histories of Africa SN - 9780821446546 AV - PR9387 .S567 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - Athens, Ohio PB - Ohio University Press KW - Achebe, Chinua -- KW - Achebe, Chinua KW - Nigerian fiction (English) KW - History and criticism KW - African fiction (English) KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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?; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2362895&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -