Remembering a Legend : Chinua Achebe.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chinua Achebe: The Passing of a Comet -- Chinua Achebe: A re-assessment -- Achebe's Things Fall Apart: An Igbo National Epic -- Things Fall Apart (1958) at 50: Chinua Achebe's 'Mustard Seed' * -- The Colonial Encounter in the African Novel: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart -- Characterization and Social Vision in Achebe's Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease: a study of the Iconoclast and the stigmatized 'other' -- Characterization in The Nigerian Novel: Ezeulu in Arrow of God -- Technique and Meaning in Achebe's Arrow Of God -- The Form and Function of the Folk Tradition in Achebe's Novels -- The Socialist Vision in the Nigerian Novel: Chinua Achebe's The Anthills of the Savannah and Festus Iyayi's Heroes -- Selection and Validation of Oral Materials for Children's Literature: Artistic Resources in Chinua Achebe's Fiction for Children -- (Re) Inventing the Past for the Present: Symbolism in Chinua Achebe's How the Leopard Got His Claws -- The Short Story as a Genre, with Notes on Achebe's "The Madman" -- Chinua Achebe and the Problematics of Writing in Indigenous Nigerian Languages: Towards the Resolution of the Igbo Language Predicament -- Achebe: Accountable to Our Society - An Interview -- Dimensions of Productivity in the Poetry of Chinua Achebe -- There Was a Country: Chinua Achebe's Exit Testimony to Nigeria -- Back cover.

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