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Article: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Casebook.(Book Review)
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- African Studies Quarterly
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- March 22, 2004
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Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Casebook. Isidore Okpewho,ed. Oxford: University Press, 2003. 275 pp.
The novel, Things Fall Apart, is central not only in African literature, but also in postcolonial literary and cultural discourses. The reason, according to Isidore Okpewho, is precisely "because it inaugurated a long and continuing tradition of inquiry into the problematic relations between the West and the nations of the Third World" (p.3). This justifies his new collection of essays, some of which are more than two decades old. In a splendid introduction, he poses a crucial question, which is perhaps more relevant to our age than it could have been for ...