Early Achebe /

Chiefly deals with the essays, stories and novels published between 1951 and 1966 during the first phase of the writer's literary career.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lindfors, Bernth
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Trenton N.J. : Africa World Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.