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The Rhetorical Implications of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
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The Rhetorical Implications of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Hardcover - 2000

by Emmanuel Edame Egar


From the publisher

In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe articulates and dramatizes a unique and peculiar kind of rhetoric- a rhetoric that emphasizes that man, and not language, is the site for social interaction. The oracle and the bull are synthesized, metamorphosed, laced, and condensed to form an alchemy which produces a cohesive communal community as the end result. This African rhetoric displays a language that is innocent, unlike the Western European rhetoric where language dramatizes multiple voices. This critical text focuses on Achebe's rhetoric from the Aristotelian style.

Details

  • Title The Rhetorical Implications of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
  • Author Emmanuel Edame Egar
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 75
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of America
  • Date 2000-07
  • Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780761817215 / 0761817212
  • Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.36 x 6 x 0.52 in (23.77 x 15.24 x 1.32 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Fiction - Technique, Achebe, Chinua
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00036447
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2000, Page 175

About the author

Emmanuel Edame Egar is Assistant Professor of English at Paul Quinn College, Texas.