Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Routledge Study Guide (Routledge Guides to Literature) - Image 1

£136.57

Routledge Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Routledge Study Guide (Routledge Guides to Literature)

Name: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Routledge Study Guide (Routledge Guides to Literature)
Brand: Routledge
Price: 136.16 GBP
Availability: InStock

Literary Theory & Movements

Price History & Forecast

Last 79 days • 79 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 79 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £136 (79 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £136 - £136

Price levels: 1 different prices over 79 days

Description

Product Description Offering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart 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.This guide to Chinua Achebe’s compelling novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Things Fall Aparta critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of critical writing on Things Fall Apart, by Abiola Irele, Abdul JanMohamed, Biodun Jeyifo, Florence Stratton and Ato Quayson, providing a variety of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey sectioncross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticismsuggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Things Fall Apart and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Achebe’s text. About the Author Dr David Whittaker is a Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London. His research interests are in the areas of Nigerian and African literature and in the field of postcolonial studies and he has published a number of articles in journals and anthologies.Dr Mpalive-Hangson Msiska is a Senior Lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has published many books, journal articles and conference papers on postcolonial literature, critical and cultural theory and identity.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0415344557
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 12 November 2007
Listed Since: 16 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Routledge Study Guide (Routledge Guides to Literature)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Chinua Achebe (Contemporary World Writers)

Chinua Achebe: Pure and Simple

Postcolonial Literary Studies – The First Thirty Years (A Modern Fiction Studies Book)

Remembering Africa: The Rediscovery of Colonialism in Contemporary German Literature

Michael Ondaatje (Contemporary World Writers)

Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing (Wellek Library Lectures)

Print Culture in Southern Africa (Southern African Studies)

Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century (Signs of Race)

Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria (African Histories and Modernities)

Critical Terms for the Study of Africa

Haunting Encounters: The Ethics of Reading across Boundaries of Difference

African Political Thought of the Twentieth Century: A Re-engagement

Writing African History

The Language Loss of the Indigenous

Institutions of World Literature: Writing, Translation, Markets (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read All Over

Delhi: New Literatures of the Megacity

Disruptive Technologies, Innovation and Development in Africa (International Political Economy Series)

Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines): 19

Colson Whitehead: The Postracial Voice of Contemporary Literature

Political Values and Narratives of Resistance: Social Justice and the Fractured Promises of Post-colonial States (Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms)

A Sea for Encounters: Essays Towards a Postcolonial Commonwealth: 117 (Cross/Cultures, 117)

In Praise of the Human Form: Arts of Africa, Oceania and America

Magical Realism in West African Fiction: Seeing with a third eye: 1 (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)