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Early Achebe Bernth Lindfors text

By: Lindfors, BernthMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Trenton, Asmara Africa World Press 2009Description: 268p. PbkISBN: 9781592217038; 1592217036 (pbk.)Subject(s): Achebe, Chinua - Criticism and interpretationDDC classification: 828.996 ACH/LIN
Contents:
Introduction -- Ladies and gentlemen at Ibadan -- Undergraduate writings - Fiction as history -- The palm-oil with which Achebe's words are eaten -- The blind men and the elephant -- Achebe's proverbs: an inventory -- The folktale as paradigm in Arrow of God -- An African parable -- Achebe's followers -- Towards an iconography -- Achebe at home and abroad -- Counting caliban's curses: a statistical analysis -- Teaching Things fall apart in Texas -- Appendix: Chinua Achebe, "The writer and the African Revolution" -- A group interview with Achebe in 1969.
Summary: Chiefly deals with the essays, stories, and novels published between 1951 and 1966 during the first phase of the writer's literary career.
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Book Book Ruskin College Library Ruskin College Library 828.996 ACH/LIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R50051J0085
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<p>Includes bibliographical references and index.</p>

Introduction -- Ladies and gentlemen at Ibadan -- Undergraduate writings - Fiction as history -- The palm-oil with which Achebe's words are eaten -- The blind men and the elephant -- Achebe's proverbs: an inventory -- The folktale as paradigm in Arrow of God -- An African parable -- Achebe's followers -- Towards an iconography -- Achebe at home and abroad -- Counting caliban's curses: a statistical analysis -- Teaching Things fall apart in Texas -- Appendix: Chinua Achebe, "The writer and the African Revolution" -- A group interview with Achebe in 1969.

Chiefly deals with the essays, stories, and novels published between 1951 and 1966 during the first phase of the writer's literary career.

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