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dc.contributor.author | McDougall, Russell J | en |
local.source.editor | Editor(s): David Whittaker | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-18T12:08:00Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: 1958-2008, p. 161-174 | en |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9789401206839 | en |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9789042033962 | en |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9042033967 | en |
dc.identifier.isbn | 940120683X | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/10447 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The Nigerian Chinua Achebe is undoubtedly Africa's best-known and most widely studied author. His publishers estimate that his first novel, 'Things Fall Apart', has sold more than eight million copies. This official estimate obviously excludes the many pirate copies that have circulated in Africa (and probably elsewhere). Time magazine lists the novel among the top 100 best English-language novels of all time. Elaine Showalter, one of the judges of the Man Booker Prize, postulates that 'Things Fall Apart' inaugurated the modern African novel, and showed "the path for writers around the world seeking new words and forms for new realities and societies." Small wonder, then, that Achebe has been lauded as one of the "Makers of the Twentieth Century." Certainly he illuminated the path forward for African writers. Without 'Things Fall Apart', African literature, particularly West African literature, would probably not have achieved the quality and renown that it has today. I want to consider here, in the fiftieth anniversary year of its publication, the history of the novel's reception; and I shall do so initially by reference in particular to the entangled history of two academic disciplines, literary studies, on the one hand, and anthropology, on the other. | en |
dc.language | en | en |
dc.publisher | Rodopi | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: 1958-2008 | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Cross/Cultures. Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English | en |
dc.relation.isversionof | 1 | en |
dc.title | Things Fall Apart: Culture, Anthropology and Literature | en |
dc.type | Book Chapter | en |
dc.subject.keywords | Literatures in English | en |
local.contributor.firstname | Russell J | en |
local.subject.for2008 | 200508 Other Literatures in English | en |
local.subject.seo2008 | 950203 Languages and Literature | en |
local.identifier.epublications | vtls086615560 | en |
local.profile.school | School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences | en |
local.profile.email | rmcdouga@une.edu.au | en |
local.output.category | B1 | en |
local.record.place | au | en |
local.record.institution | University of New England | en |
local.identifier.epublicationsrecord | une-20110905-14581 | en |
local.publisher.place | Amsterdam, Netherlands | en |
local.identifier.totalchapters | 13 | en |
local.format.startpage | 161 | en |
local.format.endpage | 174 | en |
local.series.issn | 0924-1426 | en |
local.series.number | 137 | en |
local.title.subtitle | Culture, Anthropology and Literature | en |
local.contributor.lastname | McDougall | en |
dc.identifier.staff | une-id:rmcdouga | en |
local.profile.role | author | en |
local.identifier.unepublicationid | une:10642 | en |
dc.identifier.academiclevel | Academic | en |
local.title.maintitle | Things Fall Apart | en |
local.output.categorydescription | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | en |
local.relation.url | http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=CC+137 | en |
local.relation.url | http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/157840638 | en |
local.search.author | McDougall, Russell J | en |
local.uneassociation | Unknown | en |
local.year.published | 2011 | en |
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