Blazing the path: fifty years of things fall apart

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Title:	Blazing the path: fifty years of things fall apart
Editors:	Anyadike, Chima Ayoola, Kehinde A.
Year:	2013
Pages:	329
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Ibadan
Publisher:	HEBN publishers
ISBN:	9780811842; 9789780811846
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	novels literary criticism
About person:	Albert Chinualumogu Achebe (1930-2013)
Abstract:	This book is a collection of new perspectives on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, a novel that was first published in 1958 and which has since become a classic of world literature. Aside from opening up the novel to new interpretive strategies of well-established literary critics, and clarifying some past ones, this collection of essays repositions Things Fall Apart as a literary piece with interdisciplinary and multidimensional appeal. The volume fulfils the objective of using the novel to interrogate the colonial and pre-colonial African past with Nigeria's post-modern present, and projects the country into a future that looks to literature for a deeper understanding of where Nigeria is as a citizen of an emerging global village. Contributors: Olugbemiga Samuel Afolabi; Chima Anyadike; Kehinde A. Ayoola; Ajoke Mimiko Bestman; Annie Gagiano; Ayan K. Gangopadhyay; James Hodapp; William Idowu; Akinwuni Isola; Dan Izevbaye; Biodun Jeyifo; Helen Luu; Megan MacDonald; Olufemi Mimiko; Ebenezer A. Omoteso; Niyi Osundare; Olufemi Taiwo. [ASC Leiden abstract]