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Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe - Research Guide

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Okonkwo

Beasts and Abominations in Things Fall Apart and Omenuko.
Duality and Resilience in Chinua Achebe's.
Nwoye comes home.
Okonkwo and the Storyteller: Death, Accident, and Meaning in Chinua Achebe and Walter Benjamin.
Okonkwo in his time.
Okonkwo, Textual Closure, Colonial Conquest.
Okonkwo's Reincarnation: A Comparison of Achebe's Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease.
Okonkwo's Suicide and Hara-kiri: A Note.
Position and Beliefs of Okonkwo in Precolonial and Colonial Times: Analyzing the Conflict of Opinion and Difference in Beliefs Between Okonkwo and the Changing Igbo Society in Things Fall Apart.
Resisting Change through Individual Heroism - Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
The Plight of a Hero in Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"
Theoretical construction and constructive theorizing on the execution of Ikemefuna in Achebe's Things Fall Apart

General Articles

Achebe's Things Fall Apart
THE COMMUNAL PERSPECTIVE: CHINUA ACHEBE, THINGS FALL APART AND ARROW OF GOD; AYI KWEI ARMAH, TWO THOUSAND SEASONS; GABRIEL OKARA, THE VOICE.
Charting the Constellation: Past and Present in Things Fall Apart
Overlapping Character Variations in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Principle and Practice: The Logic of Cultural Violence in Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
Ezimna: The Ogbanje child in Achebe's `Things Fall Apart'.

Igbo

Challenging the Colonial Stereotypes or Conforming to Them: Investigating Achebe's Intent in Things Fall Apart.
Igbo Philosophy of Life and psychological Parameters of Individual Wholeness.

Gender

Achebe's Fiction and the Changing Generation of Nigerian Women - Towards a Paradigm Shift in Leadership.
How Could Things Fall Apart for Whom They Were Not Together?
Gender Stratification in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
Mami Wata and the Occluded Feminine in Anglophone Nigerian-Igbo Literature.
Portrayal of Women Characters in Selected African Writing in English.
Reading the Figure of Woman in African Literature: Psychoanalysis, Difference, and Desire.
Realism, criticism, and the disguises of both: A reading of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
"Sit Like a Woman!": Posture, Position, and Power in Things Fall Apart.

Tragedy

Achebe's sense of an ending: History and tragedy in Things Fall Apart
Becoming African and the Death of Ikemefuna.
Irony and tragedy in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease.
Making a Post-Eurocentric Humanity: Tragedy, Realism, and Things Fall Apart
Rethinking Aristotle's Hamartia: The Igbo Nigerian Tragic Form in Chinua Achebe's Fiction

Colonialism

A literary Study of the Cultural and Religious Resistance of Africa and South Asia during Colonial Period.
Achebe, Conrad, and the Postcolonial Strain.
Correcting the Eyesight: Cosmopolitanism in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
Excavating the New Republic: Post-Colonial Subjectivity in Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"
INTERROGATING THE LINK BETWEEN HISTORY AND LITERATURE: INSIGHTS FROM THINGS FALL APART, KINJEKITILE AND STANLEY MEETS MUTESA.
Multidimensional Impact of Colonialism on Igbos: A Study of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God.
Race and Ethnicity in Things Fall Apart.
'Wherever Something Stands, Something Else Will Stand Beside It': ambivalence in Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God.

Religion

‘The Evil You Have Done Can Ruin the Whole Clan’: African Cosmology, Community, and Christianity in Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
Art, History, Religion and Literature: the iconoclasts in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.
The Metamorphosis of Piety in Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"
The Influence of Igbo Metaphysics on the Writings of Chinua Achebe.

Nietzsche Comparisons

The Pitfalls of Cultural Consciousness.
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart as a Case Study in Nietzsche's Transvaluation of Values.

Culture

At the crossroads: culture and cultural identity in the novels of Achebe.
Culture in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Functional Imagination in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.
Nigerian Society and Culture in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
REFLECTIONS ON CULTURAL SPECIFICITY AND DYSTOPIAN STANDARDIZATION IN CHINUA ACHEBE'S NOVELS.
SOCIO-CULTURAL COMMITMENT IN THINGS FALL APART.
THE DISTORTION OF CULTURAL IDENTITY IN CHINUA ACHEBE'S THINGS FALL APART.
The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Ethnographic Readings: Narrative Complexity in "Things Fall Apart"
Tradition and Modernity in Chinua Achebe's African Trilogy

Personhood and Identity

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart : Literary Humanism and the Question of Human Dignity.
Fiction, Culture, and the Concept of a Person
Igbo Metaphysics in Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"
Native identity and alienation in Richard Wright's Native Son and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
The Idea of Personhood in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.