Things Fall Apartg by ChinuaAchebe

Revising History : Things Fall Apart and the Immersion of Chinua Achebe

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Revising History : Things Fall Apart and the Immersion of Chinua Achebe

In his essay Hopes and Impediments , Chinua Achebe writes about his re-evaluative and reconstructive intentions in creating novels . He says that in writing about his culture , he aims to re-educate his people about the richness of their heritage and rewrite what colonialists have written about them . Things Fall Apart forms Achebe 's body of work which was written to fulfill this project . The

narrative of one man 's fall from greatness depicts - more than tragedy - the life of a nation in a particular time in history . Things Fall Apart is a novel about pre-colonial Nigeria and portrays the sweeping transformation of a tribe and a people with the intrusion of British colonizers

Things Fall Apart is part of Achebe 's tetralogy about the history of his native Nigeria comprising the pre-colonial period to the first military coup (Innes 1992 , 2 . Critics have identified the primary theme of his novels to be a portrayal of the dignity and validity of the Igbo culture (Innes 1992 , 2

Set in the Nigeria in the 1800s , the novel paints a picture of this African region prior to the emergence and subsequent colonization of the British . The novel opens with the name of its protagonist , Okonkwo evoking a world that is unfamiliar to its English readers . The plot proceeds along with the vivid s of the tribe 's feasts...