โ Scribed by Chinua Achebe; Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Chinua Achebe is considered the father of modern African literature, the writer who "opened the magic casements of African fiction." The African Trilogy --comprised of Things Fall Apart , Arrow of God , and No Longer at Ease --is his magnum opus. In these masterly novels, Achebe brilliantly imagines the lives of three generations of an African community as their world is upended by the forces of colonialism from the first arrival of the British to the waning days of empire.
The trilogy opens with the groundbreaking Things Fall Apart , the tale of Okonkwo, a hero in his village, whose clashes with missionaries--coupled with his own tragic pride--lead to his fall from grace. Arrow of God takes up the ongoing conflict between continuity and change as Ezeulu, the headstrong chief priest, finds his authority is under threat from rivals and colonial functionaries. But he believes himself to be untouchable and is determined to...
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The second book in Achebe's "African trilogy": A classic story of personal and moral struggle as well as turbulent social conflict. When Obi Okonkwo--grandson of Okonkwo, the main character in _Things Fall Apart_ \--returns to Nigeria from England in the 1950s, his foreign education separates
{ Oct 2020 - Verified ebook } Paperback, 196 pages Published 1960 Anchor Books (1994) The second book in Achebe's "African trilogy": A classic story of personal and moral struggle as well as turbulent social conflict. When Obi Okonkwo--grandson of Okonkwo, the main character in Things Fall
SUMMARY: THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and eco
The contexts of Achebe's writings -- Unity and variety in structure, language, style and form -- Reading Things fall apart : the communal world, the embattled zones of conquest, and the decline of tradition -- Critical reception, interpretation and afterlife (adaptation and influence).
The contexts of Achebe's writings -- Unity and variety in structure, language, style and form -- Reading Things fall apart : the communal world, the embattled zones of conquest, and the decline of tradition -- Critical reception, interpretation and afterlife (adaptation and influence).
SUMMARY: THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and eco