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Acknowledgements ix
Notes and references x
Introduction xi
1 Text and contexts 1
The author 3
The text 6
Literary contexts 15
Cultural contexts 22
2 Critical history 35
Introduction and early critical reception 37
Authenticity and the question of universality 39
Nationalist approaches 42
Achebe and African literary language 44
Anthropological approaches 48
Universalism as humanism 52
Nationalist universalist humanism 57
Marxist criticism 62
Feminist approaches 64
The intervention of postcolonial theory 66
Conclusion 75
3 Critical readings 77
Extract from 'The Tragic Conflict in the Novels of Chinua Achebe' Abiola Irele 79
Extract from 'Sophisticated Primitivism: The Syncretism of Oral and Literate Modes in Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"' Abdul JanMohamed 85
Extract from 'For Chinua Achebe: The Resilience and the Predicament of Obierika' Biodum Jeyifo 93
'How Could Things Fall Apart For Whom They Were Not Together?' Florence Stratton 104
Extract from 'Realism, Criticism, and the Disguises of Both: A Reading of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart' Ato Quayson 120
4 Further reading and web resources 129
Notes on contributors 137
Bibliography 138
Index 143
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