Contemporary Literary Criticism


Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Champion, Ernest A. “The Story of a Man and His People: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.Negro American Literature Forum 8, No. 4 (Winter 1974): 272–77.

Champion explores how Achebe portrays the character Okonkwo's relationship to the Igbo tradition in Things Fall Apart.

Egar, Emmanuel Edame. “Rhetorical Implications of the Theme in Things Fall Apart.” In The Rhetorical Implications of Chinua Achebe's “Things Fall Apart,” pp. 1–12. New York: University Press of America, 2000.

Egar discusses Achebe's attempt to use English to translate the Igbo rhetorical form in Things Fall Apart and his belief in the artist's secular vision as demonstrated throughout his work.

———. “Rhetorical Implications of Women and Their Pain in Things Fall Apart.” In The Rhetorical Implications of Chinua Achebe's “Things Fall Apart,” pp....

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