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Achebe Chinua. born 1930, Nigerian novelist. His works include Things Fall Apart (1958), A Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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) Things Fall Apart, as Achebe has stated, was his response to
Joyce Cary's Mister Johnson (1939), "a novel describing the
absurd aspiration to European manners and identity of an African clerk
in a small British colonial outpost in Northern Nigeria" (Thelwell
1996:10-11).
The first event featured Nigerian author Chinua Achebe and filled 2,000
seats in the University of Pennsylvania's huge Irvine Auditorium. She demonstrates her proposed method of
criticism through some exemplary readings of canonical and
"eccentric" writers alike--from Nabokov to Naipaul, from the
Algerian novelist Rachid Boudjedra to the Nigerian Chinua Achebe. |
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