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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Literary Analysis: Unifying Elements of Things Fall Apart | |
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| Historical Context I: The Scramble for and Partition of Africa | |
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| from The Making of Modern Africa, vol. 1. (1968) | |
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| from Prince Henry the Navigator (1967) | |
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| from Adventures of an African Slaver (1928) | |
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| from "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself" (1997) | |
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| from Adventures of an African Slaver (1928) | |
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| Historical Context II: The Creation and Colonization of Nigeria | |
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| from Nigeria Under British Rule (1927) | |
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| from Law and Authority in a Nigerian Tribe: A Study in Indirect Rule (1937) | |
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| from The Ibo People and the Europeans (1973) | |
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| from The Story of Nigeria (1978) | |
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| Cultural Harmony I: Igboland--the World of Man and the World of Spirits | |
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| from A History of the Igbo People (1976) | |
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| from Among the Ibos of Nigeria (1966) | |
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| from Ibo Village Affairs (1964) | |
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| from The Igbo of Southeast Nigeria (1965) | |
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| Cultural Harmony II: Igbo Language and Narrative Customs | |
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| from Omalinze: A Book of Igbo Folk-tales (1977) | |
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| Cultural Harmony III: Traditional Igbo Religion and Material Customs | |
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| from Ibo Village Affairs (1964) | |
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| from Among the Ibos of Nigeria (1966) | |
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| from The Igbo of Southeast Nigeria (1965) | |
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| from Igbo Political Culture (1974) | |
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| Things Fall Apart: The African Novelists' Novel | |
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| from Critical Perspectives on Chinua Achebe (1978) | |
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| from The Rise of the Igbo Novel (1978) | |
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| from The Growth of the African Novel (1979) | |
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| from Tasks and Masks (1981) | |
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| from "Chinua Achebe at the Crossroads" (1981) | |
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| Things Fall Apart and the Language Choice Debate | |
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| from Decolonising the Mind (1986) | |
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| from Language and Theme (1990) | |
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| from Tasks and Masks (1981) | |
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| from Choice of Language and African Literature (1990) | |
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| from Morning Yet on Creation Day (1976) | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |