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A Short History of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Engelsk Paperback
A Short History of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Engelsk Paperback

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The publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958) is heralded as the inaugural moment of modern African fiction, and the book remains the most widely read African novel of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it has sold more than twelve million copies and has become a canonical reading in schools the world over. While Things Fall Apart is neither the first African novel to be published in the West nor necessarily the most critically valued, its iconic status has surpassed even that of its author. Until now—in the sixtieth anniversary year of its publication—there has not been an updated history that moves beyond the book's commonly discussed contexts and themes. In the accessible and concise A Short History of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Terri Ochiagha provides that history, asking new questions and bringing to wider attention unfamiliar but crucial elements of the Things Fall Apart story. These include new insights into questions of canonicity and into literary, historiographical, and precolonial aesthetic influences. She also assesses adaptations and appropriations not just in films but in theater, hip-hop, and popular literary genres such as Onitsha Market Literature.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
146
ISBN-13:
9780821423486
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0821423487
Udg. Dato:
12 nov 2018
Længde:
9mm
Bredde:
103mm
Højde:
172mm
Forlag:
Ohio University Press
Oplagsdato:
12 nov 2018
Forfatter(e):
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