Title: Early Achebe /
Authors: Lindfors, Bernth.
Publisher: Africa World Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Achebe, Chinua Criticism and interpretation.; Achebe, Chinua.
Abstract: Chiefly deals with the essays, stories, and novels published between 1951 and 1966 during the first phase of the writer's literary career.
Contents: 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.