Chinua Achebe S Things Fall Apart: 1958-2008
Since its publication in 1958, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart has won global critical and popular acclaim. Offering a hitherto unlimned picture of a traditional culture, it is both a moving story of the coming of colonialism and a powerful and complex political statement on the nature of cross-cultural encounter. The novel has been immensely influential work as the progenitor of a whole movement in fiction, drama, and poetry focusing on the re-evaluation of traditional cultures and postcolonial tensions. It enjoys a pre-eminent position as a foundational text of postcolonial studies.This collection, originating in a conference held in Lond…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-90-420-3396-2
- EAN: 9789042033962
- Produktnummer: 11758475
- Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 221 S.
- Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.3 cm 524 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 137
- Gewicht: 524
Über den Autor
David Whittaker has been a lecturer at Birkbeck College and at the University of Greenwich in London. He is the author of a number of essays on Nigerian and African literature, and, together with Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (2007). His research interests also embrace contemporary diasporic postcolonial literature generally. He is currently residing in Australia.
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