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Understanding Things fall apart : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents

Author: Kalu Ogbaa
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Series: '">Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series.
Edition/Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Things Fall Apart is the most widely read and influential African novel. 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 issues relating to Britain's  Read more...
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Ogbaa, Kalu.
Understanding Things fall apart.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999
(OCoLC)607124576
Online version:
Ogbaa, Kalu.
Understanding Things fall apart.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999
(OCoLC)608098731
Named Person: Chinua Achebe; Chinua (1930- ) Achebe; Chinua Achebe; Chinua Achebe
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kalu Ogbaa
ISBN: 0313302944 9780313302947
OCLC Number: 39045166
Description: xx, 231 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Literary Analysis: Unifying Elements of Things Fall Apart --
Historical Context I: The Scramble for and Partition of Africa --
from The Making of Modern Africa, vol. 1. (1968) / J.D. Omer-Cooper --
from Prince Henry the Navigator (1967) / C. Raymond Beazley --
from Adventures of an African Slaver (1928) / Theodore Canot --
from "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself" (1997) / Olaudah Equiano --
from Adventures of an African Slaver (1928) / Theodore Canot --
Historical Context II: The Creation and Colonization of Nigeria --
from Nigeria Under British Rule (1927) / William Nevill M. Geary --
from Law and Authority in a Nigerian Tribe: A Study in Indirect Rule (1937) / C.K. Meek --
from The Ibo People and the Europeans (1973) / Elizabeth Isichei --
from The Story of Nigeria (1978) / Michael Crowder --
Cultural Harmony I: Igboland--the World of Man and the World of Spirits --
from A History of the Igbo People (1976) / Elizabeth Isichei --
from Among the Ibos of Nigeria (1966) / G.T. Basden --
from Ibo Village Affairs (1964) / M.M. Green --
from The Igbo of Southeast Nigeria (1965) / Victor C. Uchendu --
Cultural Harmony II: Igbo Language and Narrative Customs --
from Omalinze: A Book of Igbo Folk-tales (1977) --
Cultural Harmony III: Traditional Igbo Religion and Material Customs --
from Ibo Village Affairs (1964) / M.M. Green --
from Among the Ibos of Nigeria (1966) / G.T. Basden --
from The Igbo of Southeast Nigeria (1965) / Victor C. Uchendu.
Series Title: Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series.
Responsibility: Kalu Ogbaa.

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