On Thursday, October 20th between 2:15 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. at the James A. Tuttle Library, Antrim readers will discuss Chinua Achebe’s, Things Fall Apart.
Around the world, reviewers have praised Achebe’s novel originally published in 1958. Throughout the African continent, schools have made Things Fall Apart a standard part of their curricula. Time magazine included the novel in its “TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. The novel has been translated into more than 50 languages, and is often used in literature, world history, and African Studies courses across the world.“
Among the questions which Antrim readers will be exploring are:
1. Why is this novel held up as the archetypal African novel and yet is the subject of so much controversy?
2. How does the (lead protagonist) Okonkwo’s obsession with his masculinity shape his relationships with others?
3. Why is Okonkwo so astonishingly violent? What point does the author make with Okonkwo’s ending?
4. How do the characters’ memberships in tribes and clans determine their behavior?
5. What does the book title mean?
For additional information, please email Steve Ullman at
stephenhullman@gmail.com
Copies of the Achebe book should be available at the Tuttle Library. Please join our low-key, informal conversations.
Original source can be found here.
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