Approaches to teaching Achebe's Things fall apart /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lindfors, Bernth
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1991.
Series:Approaches to teaching world literature ; 37.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Editions / Bernth Lindfors
  • Bibliographies / Bernth Lindfors
  • Biographical sources and interviews / Bernth Lindfors
  • Igbo studies / Bernth Lindfors
  • Background studies: anthropology, history, politics, religion / Bernth Lindfors
  • Critical commentary / Bernth Lindfors
  • The story / Bernth Lindfors
  • The author / Bernth Lindfors
  • Teaching Things Fall Apart / Chinua Achebe
  • Chinua Achebe and the signs of the times / Simon Gikandi
  • Following the author in Things Fall Apart / Emmanuel Obiechina
  • Things Fall Apart in its time and place / Robert M. Wren
  • The Igbo as exceptional colonial subjects: fictionalizing an abnormal historical situation / Dan Izevbaye
  • The politics of point of view: teaching Things Fall Apart / Ashton Nichols
  • The paradoxical characterization of Okonkwo / Arlene A. Elder
  • Matrical approach to Things Fall Apart: a poetics of epic and mythic paradigms / Ousseynou B. TraorĂ©
  • "The Tortoise and the Birds": strategies of resistance in Things Fall Apart / Barbara Harlow
  • Things Fall Apart and the literature of empire / Hunt Hawkins
  • The Third World novel as counterhistory: Things Fall Apart and Asturias's Men of Maize / Edna Aizenberg
  • Making men and history: Achebe and the politics of revisionism / Rhonda Cobham
  • The postcolonial African novel and the dialogic imagination / Zohreh T. Sullivan
  • Narrative, metacommentary, and politics in a "simple" story / Wahneema Lubiano
  • The problem of realism in Things Fall Apart: a Marxist exegesis / Biodun Jeyifo
  • Teaching Things Fall Apart in the humanities core course / Eric Sellin
  • Teaching Things Fall Apart in a criticism course / Richard K. Priebe.