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From:Literature of Developing Nations for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literature of Developing Nations (Vol. 1. )When Chinua Achebe published Anthills of the Savannah in 1987, it was his first new novel in more than twenty years. During that time, Nigeria had been governed by a succession of corrupt and greedy rulers, and Achebe...
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From: CLA Journal[(essay date March 1992) In the following essay, Iyasere explains the thematic and structural significance of the murder of Ikemefuna in Things Fall Apart, focusing on the character development of Okonkwo.] No episode...
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From:Contemporary Poets (6th ed.)With the publication of his award-winning poetry volume Christmas in Biafra, Chinua Achebe showed the kind of mature and sensitive voice that made his first novel, Things Fall Apart, a landmark in African writing fifteen...
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From: Research in African Literatures[(essay date Summer 1996) In the following essay, Mackenzie details the transformation of indigenous religious beliefs and practices in Things Fall Apart, comparing it to the relatively static portrayal of religion in...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionIn the preface to his collection Girls at War (1972), Chinua Achebe has argued that his short stories have provided only "a pretty lean harvest" and that he cannot lay any great claim to the literary form—but this is...
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From: The New English Literatures: Cultural Nationalism in a Changing WorldWith the publication of Things Fall Apart (1958) Nigeria had the classic book that would serve as a point of reference and comparison for future writing. The novel was not only more competent than anything that had...
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From: CLA Journal[(essay date June 1994) In the following essay, Robson examines various types of English that appear in Anthills of the Savannah, demonstrating how each reflects differences in education, social status, and cultural...
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From: Mother Is Gold: A Study in West African Literature[(essay date 1971) In the following excerpt, Roscoe discusses Achebe's use of satire in rebuilding a sense of African pride.] [Achebe's declared aims as a writer] are twofold: to teach his people, and to satirise them;...
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From:Short Stories for Students[In the essay below, Piedmont-Marton offers a general introduction to “Vengeful Creditor,” focusing upon issues related to class struggle.] “Vengeful Creditor” was first published in 1971 and two years later was...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 13. )At first blush, Achebe's short story "Civil Peace" appears to be a sad tale of one man's failure to cash in on the meager rewards of post-civil war Nigeria. Jonathan's windfall of twenty Nigerian pounds is taken from him...
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From: Matatu[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Tembo provides a history of the Nigerian Civil War that incorporates Adichie’s observations on the role of foreign interests in creating and fostering ethnic cleavage in...
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From: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture[(essay date 2014) In the following essay, Njeng seeks to counter the arguments of scholars who understand Achebe’s work to resist western narratives of African culture. On the contrary, he argues, “Achebe presents what...
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From: Ariel[(essay date January/April 2004) In the following essay, Reichman analyzes the minimization of native identity as a result of the colonial legal framework in Things Fall Apart, highlighting the shift in narrative...
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From: Bookbird[(essay date spring 1998) In the following essay, Emenyonu portrays Achebe's How the Leopard Got His Claws as a symbolic representation of elements of the Biafran Civil War in late 1960s Nigeria.] Nigerian author...
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From: Philosophia Africana[(essay date August 2006) In the following essay, Chanda views Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God as texts that dramatize the limited understanding of Western Enlightenment philosophy as it relates to the indigenous...
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From:Literature of Developing Nations for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literature of Developing Nations (Vol. 1. )Many critics and readers of Anthills of the Savannah are left with a sense of hopelessness at the end of the novel. Three of the novel's four main characters have died senseless deaths, and the country is left in the...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Chinua Achebe established his reputation with Things Fall Apart, one of the first novels to be published in post-independence Africa. It was admired for many reasons, notably the tragic profundity of its theme and the...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)In 1958, when Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart first appeared, the mindset of hunter-gatherers was a closed book to most fiction readers. We knew plenty about the external details of ``primitive'' lives: academic...
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From: The HumanistI am concerned with moving the centre ... from its assumed location in the West to a multi-plicity of spheres in [all] the cultures of the world. [This] will contribute to the freeing of world cultures from the...
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From: Studies in the Novel[(essay date Fall 1997) In the following essay, Begam describes three distinct conclusions to Things Fall Apart in relation to three different conceptions of history produced by reading the narrative in a post-colonial...