Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-203) and index.
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Achebe's sense of an ending: history and tragedy in Things fall apart / Richard Begam -- Problems of gender and history in the teaching of Things fall apart / Rhonda Cobham -- Rhetorical implications of the theme in Things fall apart / Emmanuel Edame Egar -- Sophisticated primitivism: the syncretism of oral and literate modes in Achebe's Things fall apart / Abdul JanMohamed -- Achebe and duality in Igbo thought / Anthonia C. Kalu -- How the centre is made to hold in Things fall apart / Neil Ten Kortenaar -- The metamorphosis of piety in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Clayton G. MacKenzie -- Missionaries and converts: religion and colonial intrusion in Things fall apart / Joseph McClaren -- Igbo cosmology and the parameters of individual accomplishment in Things fall apart / Clement Okafor -- Genealogical determinism in Achebe's Things fall apart / Imafedia Okhamafe -- Character and society in Achebe's Things fall apart / Eustace Palmer -- The proverb, realism and Achebe: a study of ethical consciousness / Richard K. Priebe -- Native identity and alienation in Richard Wright's Native son and Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart: a cross-cultural analysis / Joko Sengova