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Understanding Things Fall Apart: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
By Kalu Ogbaa
260 pages
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- Greenwood Press
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- Westport, CT
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- 1999
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Synopsis
Things Fall Apart is the most widely read and influential African novel. Published in 1958, it has sold more than nine million copies and been translated into fifty-two languages. African culture is not familiar to most American readers however, and this casebook provides a wealth of commentary and original materials that place the novel in its historical, social, and cultural contexts. Ogbaa, an Igbo scholar, has selected a wide variety of historical and firsthand accounts of the Igbo historical ...
Things Fall Apart is the most widely read and influential African novel. Published in 1958, it has sold more than nine million copies and been translated into fifty-two languages. African culture is not familiar to most American readers however, and this casebook provides a wealth of commentary and original materials that place the novel in its historical, social, and cultural contexts. Ogbaa, an Igbo scholar, has selected a wide variety of historical and firsthand accounts of the Igbo historical and cultural heritage. These accounts illuminate the historical context and issues relating to the colonization of Africa by European powers, in particular Britain's colonization of Nigeria. Fascinating materials bring to light the novel's cultural context--folkways, language and narrative customs, and traditional Igbo religion. Among the documents included are a slave narrative, interviews, journal and magazine articles, and historical essays. Each chapter is followed by questions for class discussion and ideas for student paper topics. A selection of maps and photos of Igbo culture complement the text.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents ix
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction xv
- 1 - Literary Analysis: Unifying Elements of Things Fall Apart 1
- Suggested Readings 18
- 2 - Historical Context I: the Scramble for and Partition of Africa 21
- Suggested Readings 47
- 3 - Historical Context Ii: the Creation and Colonization of Nigeria 49
- Notes 68
- Suggested Readings 73
- 4 - Cultural Harmony I: Igboland -- the World of Man and the World of Spirits 75
- Notes 87
- Notes 95
- Note 100
- Suggested Readings 102
- Title Page iii
- Contents ix
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction xv
- 1 - Literary Analysis: Unifying Elements of Things Fall Apart 1
- Suggested Readings 18
- 2 - Historical Context I: the Scramble for and Partition of Africa 21
- Suggested Readings 47
- 3 - Historical Context Ii: the Creation and Colonization of Nigeria 49
- Notes 68
- Suggested Readings 73
- 4 - Cultural Harmony I: Igboland -- the World of Man and the World of Spirits 75
- Notes 87
- Notes 95
- Note 100
- Suggested Readings 102
- 5 - Cultural Harmony Ii: Igbo Language and Narrative Customs 103
- Suggested Readings 126
- 6 - Cultural Harmony Iii: Traditional Igbo Religion and Material Customs 127
- Suggested Readings 155
- 7 - Things Fall Apart: the African Novelists' Novel 157
- Notes 172
- Notes 175
- Notes 177
- Notes 180
- Suggested Readings 188
- 8 - Things Fall Apart and the Language Choice Debate 191
- Note 201
- Notes 206
- Notes 212
- Suggested Readings 221
- Glossary 223
- Index 227