ACHEBE'S SENSE OF AN ENDING: HISTORY AND TRAGEDY IN "THINGS FALL APART"

Begam discusses narrative closure or endings in postcolonial literature, focusing on the literature's relation to its own past and the writing of its history, through the study of Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart."

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Published inStudies in the novel Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 396 - 411
Main Author BEGAM, RICHARD
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Denton, Tex University of North Texas 01.10.1997
North Texas State University
Johns Hopkins University Press
Subjects
Achebe, Chinua
African culture
Colonialism
Cultural history
History
Literary criticism
Literary postmodernism
Narrative history
Narratives
Nigerian literature
Novels
Postcolonial literature
Suicide
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Summary:Begam discusses narrative closure or endings in postcolonial literature, focusing on the literature's relation to its own past and the writing of its history, through the study of Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart."
ISSN:0039-3827
1934-1512