Overview
- Unlike any existing books or materials related to Things Fall Apart, this project provides a broader scope to better help readers appreciate Chinua Achebe’s writings
- Features contributions from world-renowned African Literature specialists
- Chapters from lifetime friends of Achebe’s bring a unique perspective to understanding of Achebe in particular and African Literature in general.
Part of the book series: African Histories and Modernities (AHAM)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Friends of Achebe
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African Languages, Linguistics, and Literatures
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HBCUs, African Cultures, and the Teaching of World Languages
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Education, History, and Chinua AchebeChinua Achebe’s Fiction and Political Texts
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About this book
This book celebrates Chinua Achebe, one of the most profound and famous African writers of our time, and his widely read masterpiece, Things Fall Apart. The novel remains a “must read” literary text for reasons the many contributors to this book make clear in their astute readings. Their perspectives offer thought provoking and critically insightful considerations for scholars of all ages, cultures and genders.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Désiré Baloubi is Professor of English and Linguistics and Department Head of English and Foreign Languages at Norfolk State University, USA. He is a founding member of the Southeast African Languages and Literatures Forum. He edited The Africa We Know (2009) and co-edited African American Perspectives (2010).
Christina R. Pinkston is Assistant Professor of English at Norfolk State University, USA. Her research focuses on the social-political-cultural voice of African and African-Americans.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart'
Editors: Désiré Baloubi, Christina R. Pinkston
Series Title: African Histories and Modernities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50797-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50796-1Published: 10 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50799-2Published: 11 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50797-8Published: 10 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-5773
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5781
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 205
Topics: African Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literature, general, African Culture