Early Achebe /
Lindfors, Bernth.
Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press,
2009.
Chiefly deals with the essays, stories, and novels published between 1951 and 1966 during the first phase of the writer's literary career.
Chiefly deals with the essays, stories, and novels published between 1951 and 1966 during the first phase of the writer's literary career.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Achebe, Chinua