Includes bibliographical references (p. [138]-142) and index
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Introduction -- Part 1: Things Fall Apart and its Contexts -- 1. The Author -- 2. The Text -- 3. Literary Contexts -- 4. Cultural Contexts -- Part 2. Critical History -- Part 3. Critical Responses -- 1. Excerpt from 'The Tragic Conflict in the Novels of Chinua Achebe' / Abiola Irele -- 2. Excerpt from 'Sophisticated Primitivism: The Syncretism of Oral and Literate Modes in Achebe's Things Fall Apart / Abdul JanMohamed -- 3. Excerpt from 'For Chinua Achebe: The Resilience and the Predicament of Obierika' / Biodun Jeyifo -- 4. 'How Could Things Fall Apart For Whom They Were Not Together?' / Florence Stratton -- 5. Excerpt from 'Realism, Criticism, and the Disguises of Both: A Reading of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart / Ato Quayson
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Since its publication in 1958 "Things fall apart" has won global critical acclaim. Offering an insight into African culture, this is both a tragic and moving story of an individual set in the wider context of the coming of colonialism, as well as a powerful and complex political statement of cross-cultural encounters