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Postcolonial modern · Novel
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe. An Igbo leader’s personal rigidity intersects with the disruptive arrival of British colonial and Christian institutions.
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- Date
- 1958
- Origin
- Nigeria
- Genre
- Novel
- Canon tier
- Essential core
- Difficulty
- Accessible
- Length
- Medium
- Collection
- The Western Canon
Subjects and themes
Why it matters
An Igbo leader’s personal rigidity intersects with the disruptive arrival of British colonial and Christian institutions.
This work is included on the basis of modern expanded canon. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.
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