Understanding Things fall apart
Subtitle: a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents
By: Kalu Ogbaa.
Series: The Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series,
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Achebe, Chinua. -- Sources.; Igbo (African people) in literature.; Igbo (African people); Nigeria -- Civilization.
Description: Things Fall Apart is the most widely read and influential African novel. This casebook provides a wealth of commentary and original materials that place the novel in its historical, social, and cultural contexts. Ogbaa, an Igbo scholar, has selected a wide variety of historical and firsthand accounts of the Igbo historical and cultural heritage. These accounts illuminate the issues relating to Britain's colonization of Nigeria.

Fascinating materials bring to light the novel's cultural context-folkways, language and narrative customs, and traditional Igbo religion. Among the documents are a slave narrative, interviews, journal and magazine articles, and historical essays.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.