TY - BOOK AU - Achebe, Chinua AU - Bloom,Harold TI - Things fall apart T2 - Blooms's modern critical interpretations SN - 9781604135817 ((hardcover: alk. paper) : alk. paper) AV - PR9387.9.A3 T523965 2010 U1 - 823/.914 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Bloom's Literary Criticism KW - Achebe, Chinua. KW - Igbo (African people) in literature KW - Nigeria KW - In literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chinua Achebe writing culture: representations of gender and tradition in Things fall apart / Kwadwo Osei-Nyame -- The portrayal of Igbo culture in Zulu: a descriptive analysis of the translation of Achebe's Things fall apart into Zulu -- D. N. Mkhize -- The plight of a hero in Achebe's Things fall apart / Patrick C. Nnoromele -- Undignified details: the colonial subject of law / Ravit Reichman -- "A mouth with which to tell the story": silence, violence, and speech in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Joseph R. Slaughter -- Realising irony's post/colonial promise: global sense and local meaning in Things fall apart and "Ruins of a great house" / Mac Fenwick -- Making use of the past in Things fall apart / Oliver Lovesey -- The depiction of masculinity in classic Nigerian literature / Frank Salamone -- Problematizing polygyny in the historical novels of Chinua Achebe: the role of the Western feminist scholar / Andrea Powell Wolfe -- The possibilities and pitfalls of ethnographic readings: narrative complexity in Things fall apart / Carey Snyder ER -