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Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart

von Chinua Achebe

Fiction History Cultural Studies
ISBN

0435908022

Verlag

Heinemann International Incorporated

Erschienen

01.06.1965

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African literature Nigerian culture Igbo culture colonialism cultural clash European missionaries individual vs society tragedy historical fiction postcolonial literature 20th-century literature traditional society identity masculinity tribal life African history cultural heritage classic literature Chinua Achebe modern African experience societal change imperialism indigenous people cultural conflict African novel literary fiction character study societal norms power dynamics tradition vs change.

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THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and economical beauty it provides us with a powerful fable about the immemorial conflict between the individual and society. The second story, which is as modern as the first is ancient, and which elevates the book to a tragic plane, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world through the arrival of aggressive, proselytizing European missionaries. These twin dramas are perfectly harmonized, and they are modulated by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul. THINGS FALL APART is the most illuminating and permanent monument we have to the modern African experience as seen from within.

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