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- catalog abstract ""Things Fall Apart is the most widely read and influential African novel. This casebook provides a wealth of commentary and original materials that place the novel in its historical, social, and cultural contexts. Ogbaa, an Igbo scholar, has selected a wide variety of historical and firsthand accounts of the Igbo historical and cultural heritage. These accounts illuminate the issues relating to Britain's colonization of Nigeria. Fascinating materials bring to light the novel's cultural context-folkways, language and narrative customs, and traditional Igbo religion. Among the documents are a slave narrative, interviews, journal and magazine articles, and historical essays."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11125787.
- catalog coverage "Nigeria Civilization.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Things Fall Apart is the most widely read and influential African novel. This casebook provides a wealth of commentary and original materials that place the novel in its historical, social, and cultural contexts. Ogbaa, an Igbo scholar, has selected a wide variety of historical and firsthand accounts of the Igbo historical and cultural heritage. These accounts illuminate the issues relating to Britain's colonization of Nigeria. Fascinating materials bring to light the novel's cultural context-folkways, language and narrative customs, and traditional Igbo religion. Among the documents are a slave narrative, interviews, journal and magazine articles, and historical essays."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Literary Analysis: Unifying Elements of Things Fall Apart -- Historical Context I: The Scramble for and Partition of Africa -- from The Making of Modern Africa, vol. 1. (1968) / J.D. Omer-Cooper -- from Prince Henry the Navigator (1967) / C. Raymond Beazley -- from Adventures of an African Slaver (1928) / Theodore Canot -- from "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself" (1997) / Olaudah Equiano -- from Adventures of an African Slaver (1928) / Theodore Canot -- Historical Context II: The Creation and Colonization of Nigeria -- from Nigeria Under British Rule (1927) / William Nevill M. Geary -- from Law and Authority in a Nigerian Tribe: A Study in Indirect Rule (1937) / C.K. Meek -- from The Ibo People and the Europeans (1973) / Elizabeth Isichei -- from The Story of Nigeria (1978) / Michael Crowder -- Cultural Harmony I: Igboland--the World of Man and the World of Spirits -- from A History of the Igbo People (1976) / Elizabeth Isichei -- from Among the Ibos of Nigeria (1966) / G.T. Basden -- from Ibo Village Affairs (1964) / M.M. Green -- from The Igbo of Southeast Nigeria (1965) / Victor C. Uchendu -- Cultural Harmony II: Igbo Language and Narrative Customs -- from Omalinze: A Book of Igbo Folk-tales (1977) -- Cultural Harmony III: Traditional Igbo Religion and Material Customs -- from Ibo Village Affairs (1964) / M.M. Green -- from Among the Ibos of Nigeria (1966) / G.T. Basden -- from The Igbo of Southeast Nigeria (1965) / Victor C. Uchendu.".
- catalog extent "xx, 231 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Understanding Things fall apart.".
- catalog identifier "0313302944 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Understanding Things fall apart.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series, 1074-598X".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press,".
- catalog relation "Understanding Things fall apart.".
- catalog spatial "Nigeria Civilization.".
- catalog subject "823 21".
- catalog subject "Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart Sources.".
- catalog subject "Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart.".
- catalog subject "Igbo (African people) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Igbo (African people)".
- catalog subject "PR9387.9.A3 T5365 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Literary Analysis: Unifying Elements of Things Fall Apart -- Historical Context I: The Scramble for and Partition of Africa -- from The Making of Modern Africa, vol. 1. (1968) / J.D. Omer-Cooper -- from Prince Henry the Navigator (1967) / C. Raymond Beazley -- from Adventures of an African Slaver (1928) / Theodore Canot -- from "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself" (1997) / Olaudah Equiano -- from Adventures of an African Slaver (1928) / Theodore Canot -- Historical Context II: The Creation and Colonization of Nigeria -- from Nigeria Under British Rule (1927) / William Nevill M. Geary -- from Law and Authority in a Nigerian Tribe: A Study in Indirect Rule (1937) / C.K. Meek -- from The Ibo People and the Europeans (1973) / Elizabeth Isichei -- from The Story of Nigeria (1978) / Michael Crowder -- Cultural Harmony I: Igboland--the World of Man and the World of Spirits -- from A History of the Igbo People (1976) / Elizabeth Isichei -- from Among the Ibos of Nigeria (1966) / G.T. Basden -- from Ibo Village Affairs (1964) / M.M. Green -- from The Igbo of Southeast Nigeria (1965) / Victor C. Uchendu -- Cultural Harmony II: Igbo Language and Narrative Customs -- from Omalinze: A Book of Igbo Folk-tales (1977) -- Cultural Harmony III: Traditional Igbo Religion and Material Customs -- from Ibo Village Affairs (1964) / M.M. Green -- from Among the Ibos of Nigeria (1966) / G.T. Basden -- from The Igbo of Southeast Nigeria (1965) / Victor C. Uchendu.".
- catalog title "Understanding Things fall apart : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents / Kalu Ogbaa.".
- catalog type "Quelle. swd".
- catalog type "Sources. fast".
- catalog type "text".