Early Achebe
By: Bernth Lindfors.
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Trenton NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Achebe, Chinua -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: Chiefly deals with the essays, stories, and novels published between 1951 and 1966 during the first phase of the writer's literary career.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Ladies and gentlemen at Ibadan; title: Undergraduate writings - Fiction as history; title: The palm-oil with which Achebe's words are eaten; title: The blind men and the elephant; title: Achebe's proverbs: an inventory; title: The folktale as paradigm in Arrow of God; title: An African parable; title: Achebe's followers; title: Towards an iconography; title: Achebe at home and abroad; title: Counting caliban's curses: a statistical analysis; title: Teaching Things fall apart in Texas; title: Appendix:   Chinua Achebe, "The writer and the African Revolution"; title: A group interview with Achebe in 1969.