February 8, 2008
Five Views of 'Things Fall Apart'
It would be hard to overstate how important Things Fall Apart is for modern African literature. And yet, like many works at the root of literary traditions, its achievements are easy to overlook because it established a set of conventions and made them look natural.
Chinua Achebe found ways to represent the many forms of language that live together in modern Africa — indigenous mother tongues in their formal and informal modes and varieties of the colonial
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