Arrow of God / Chinua Achebe. by Achebe, Chinua

Literature of Africa / Douglas Killam. by Killam, G. D.

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Literature of Africa / Douglas Killam. by Killam, G. D.

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Postcolonial mind, identities and political communication in Africa : literary prospectives / Aliou Sow ; foreword by Professor Mamadou Kandji ; afterword by Professor Gorgui Dieng. by Sow, Aliou

Table of Contents: “…The African individual and his community : understanding the mixture of liberal and socialist values in pre-colonial African life through Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God --…”
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Utopian generations : the political horizon of twentieth-century literature / Nicholas Brown. by Brown, Nicholas, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…The good soldier and Parade's end : absolute nostalgia ; Arrow of God : the totalizing gaze -- Politics. The childermass : revolution and reaction ; Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Pepetela : revolution and retrenchment ; Conclusion : postmodernism as semiperipheral symptom.…”
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Shaken wisdom : irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction / Gloria Nne Onyeoziri. by Onyeoziri, Gloria Nne

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: African ironies -- From rhetoric to semantics -- Interpreting irony -- Pragmatics and Ahmadou Kourouma's (post)colonial state -- Chinua Achebe's Arrow of god and the pragmatics of proverbial irony -- Calixthe Beyala: new conceptions of the ironic voice -- Conclusion: when the handshake has become another thing.…”
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Remembering a legend : Chinua Achebe / Ernest N. Emenyonu & Charles E. Nnolim. by Emenyo̲nu, Ernest, 1939-, Nnolim, Charles E.

Table of Contents: “…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.…”
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Conversations with Chinua Achebe / edited by Bernth Lindfors. by Achebe, Chinua

Table of Contents: “….] -- Achebe : accountable to our society / Ernest and Pat Emenyonu -- Chinua Achebe on Arrow of God / Michel Fabre -- Interview with Chinua Achebe / Onuora Ossie Enekwe -- The critical generation / Rosemary Colmer -- An interview with Chinua Achebe / Kalu Ogbaa -- Chinua Achebe : at the crossroads / Jonathan Cott -- Achebe interviewed / D.V.K.Raghavacharyulu, K.I. …”

Issues in African literature / Charles E. Nnolim. by Nnolim, Charles E.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; 1. A source for Arrow of God; 2. Trends in the criticism of African literature; 3. …”
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Eco-critical literature : regreening African landscapes / edited by Ogaga Okuyade.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : African Cultural Art Forms, Eco-activism, and (Eco)-logical Consciousness -- Representations of the Effects of Colonial Land Policies in two Zimbabwean Novels -- Landscaping as a Plot and Character Development Medium in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow -- Eco-activism in Contemporary African Literature : Zakes Mda's Heart of Redness and Tanure Ojaide's The Activist -- Isidore Okpewho's Tides and Ken Saro-Wiwa's A Month and a Day : A Kinesis of Eco-activism from Theory to Praxis -- Nature and Environment in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God -- Degraded Environment and Destabilized Women in Kaine Agary's Yellow-Yellow -- The Niger Delta, Environment, Women and the Politics of Survival in Kaine Agary's Yellow-Yellow -- Women as Victims, Environmentalists and Eco-activists in Vincent Egbuson's Love My Planet -- Can the Earth Be Belted? …”
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