Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Casebook

by Isidore Okpewho

Book Overview

Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global literary canon. Translated into close to sixty languages, Things Fall Apart is the novel that inaugurated the long and continuing tradition of postcolonial inquiry into the problematic relations between the West and the countries of the Third World that were once European colonies.

This collection explores...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195147642
• ISBN13: 9780195147643
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 8.1"