http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
vii, 268 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 22 cm.
Chiefly deals with the essays, stories and novels published between 1951 and 1966 during the first phase of the writer's literary career.
Ladies and gentlemen at Ibadan -- Undergraduate writings -- Fiction as history -- The palm-oil with which Achebe's words are eaten -- The blind men and the elephant -- Achebe's proverbs: an inventory -- The folktale as paradigm in Arrow of God -- An African parable -- Achebe's followers -- Towards an iconography -- Achebe at home and abroad -- Counting caliban's curses: a statistical analysis -- Teaching Things fall apart in Texas -- Appendix: Chinua Achebe, the writer and the African Revolution -- A group interview with Achebe in 1969.
Includes bibliographical references and index.