This article seeks to complicate the rhetoric of" the cultural insider" that surrounds Chinua
Achebe and to interrogate readings of" Things Fall Apart (TFA)" that assume the novel …

Many friends and colleagues have helped in the writing of this book, in formal and informal
ways. For their advice and help in finding difficult-to-access resources, i am particularly …

Through mainly a New Historicist critical approach, this book explores how Shakespeare
and Achebe employ supernatural devices such as prophecies, dreams, gods/goddesses …

This thesis examines manifestations of childhood trauma in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall
Apart and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, with a particular focus on the …

The first book-length critical study of the black experience in the Vietnam War and its
aftermath, this text interrogates the meaning of heroism based on models from African and …

Developments in world politics and culture in the inter war and post war years, especially the
rise of the anti-colonial nationalist movements in Africa, provide an important background to …

Abstract Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe's first African novel, is a story about the traditional
Igbo life in the pre-colonial period. It is often seen as an African national epic by literary …

This dissertation examines the legacy of secrecy, silences, and the unspoken in twentieth
century African American literary texts. Using a range of texts representing various eras …

Abstract The protagonist of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart has been variously described
by critics as a hero or an anti-hero owing to his conformity or otherwise to the concept of …

This study examines how Shakespeare and Achebe use supernatural devices such as
prophecies, dreams, beliefs, divinations and others to create complex characters. Even …