Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe - Copyright Page

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe - Copyright Page

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Volume 152

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Dakota. Reproduced by permission.—Novel: A Forum on Fiction, v. 18, Spring, 1985. Copyright NOVEL Corp. © 1985. Reproduced with permission.—Observer, London, February, 1998; September 6, 1998. Both reproduced by permission.— Poetry, v. 159, February, 1992 for “Smarts,” by David Baker. Reproduced by permission by the publisher and the author.— Publishers Weekly, v. 246, April 26, 1999. Copyright 1999 Cahners Publishing Company. Reproduced by permission.— Raritan: A Quarterly Review, v. 16, Summer, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Raritan: A Quarterly Review. Reproduced by permission.—Research in African Literatures, v. 18, Spring, 1987; v. 25, Winter, 1994; v. 27, Summer, 1996; v. 30, Summer, 1999; v. 30, Summer, 2000. Copyright Indiana University Press 1987, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2000. All reproduced by permission.—Review of Contemporary Fiction, v. 17, Spring, 1997. Copyright, 1997, by John O’Brien. Reproduced by permission.—Sewanee Review, v. 101, Winter, 1993. © 1993 by Edward L. Galligan/v. 104, Spring, 1996. Both reproduced by permission.—Smithsonian, v. 24, August, 1993 for “A review of Joseph Banks: A Life” by Michael Dirda; v. 25, December, 1994 for a review of “True North,” by Edward Park. Both reproduced by permission of the author.—The Spectator, London, v. 268, April 11, 1992; v. 271, July 10, 1993; v. 278, January 4, 1997; v. 280, February 14, 1998; v. 281, August 22, 1998. © 1992, 1993 by The Spectator. All reproduced by permission of The Spectator.—Studies in American Jewish Literature, v. 10, Fall, 1991. © 1991 by The Kent State University Press. Reproduced by permission.— Times Literary Supplement, May 13, 1994; October 4, 1996; May 30, 1997; n. 4893, January 10, 1997; n. 4979, September 4, 1998. All reproduced by permission.—West Coast Review of Books, v. 9, January, 1983; v. 11, May, 1985. Both reproduced by permission.—World Literature Today, v. 54, 1980; v. 70, Autumn, 1996. Copyright 1980, 1996 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 152, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Egar, Emmanuel Edame. From The Rhetorical Implications of Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart.”, University Press of America, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Elder, Arlene A. From Approaches to Teaching Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”. Edited by Bernth Lindfors. Modern Language Association of America, 1991. Reproduced by permission.— Goetz-Stankiewicz, Marketa. From The Achievement of Josef Skvorecky. Edited by Sam Solecki. University of Toronto Press, 1994. © University of Toronto Press Incorporated 1994. Reproduced by permission of the editor.—Keller, Lynn. From Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women. The University of Chicago Press, 1997. © 1997 by The University of Chicago. Reproduced by permission.—Kundera, Milan. From “Preface to the French Edition of ‘Mirakl’ (‘The Miracle Game’) (1978),” in The Achievement of Josef Skvorecky. Edited by Sam Solecki. University of Toronto Press, 1994. © 1978 by Milan Kundera. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Naylor, Paul. From Poetic Investigations: Singing the Holes in History. Northwestern University Press, 1999. Copyright © by Northwestern University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Priebe, Richard. From Neo-African Literature and Culture: Essays in Memory of Janheinz Jahn. Edited by Bernth Lindfors and Ulla Schild. B. Heymann, 1976. © 1976 by B. Heymann Verlag GmbH. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Quartermain, Peter. From Disjunctive Poetics: From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe. Cambridge University Press, 1992. © Cambridge University Press 1992. Reproduced by permission and the author.—Reinfeld, Linda. From Language Poetry: Writing as Rescue. Louisiana State University Press, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Louisiana State University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Taggart, John. From Songs of Degrees: Essays on Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. The University of Alabama Press, 1994. Copyright © 1994 The University of Alabama Press. Reproduced by permission.

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Achebe, Chinua, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Conway, Jill Ker, photograph by Jerry Bauer. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Howe, Susan, photograph. © Peter Hare. Reproduced by permission.— Škvorecký, Josef, 1981, photograph by John Reeves. Reproduced by permission of the photographer.

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