TY - BOOK AU - Lindfors, Bernth TI - Early Achebe SN - 9781592217038 U1 - 828.996 ACH/LIN PY - 2009/// CY - Trenton, Asmara PB - Africa World Press KW - Achebe, Chinua - Criticism and interpretation N1 -

Includes bibliographical references and index.

; 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 N2 - Chiefly deals with the essays, stories, and novels published between 1951 and 1966 during the first phase of the writer's literary career ER -