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010 _a2009013587
020 _a9781592217038
020 _a1592217036 (pbk.)
082 _a828.996 ACH/LIN
100 _aLindfors, Bernth
245 1 0 _aEarly Achebe
_cBernth Lindfors
_htext
260 _aTrenton, Asmara
_bAfrica World Press
_c2009
300 _a268p. Pbk
500 _a<p>Includes bibliographical references and index.</p>
505 _aIntroduction -- 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.
520 _aChiefly deals with the essays, stories, and novels published between 1951 and 1966 during the first phase of the writer's literary career.
650 _aAchebe, Chinua - Criticism and interpretation
999 _c89003
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040 _aRUSKIN