Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chinua Achebe writing culture: representations of gender and tradition in Things fall apart / Kwadwo Osei-Nyame -- The portrayal of Igbo culture in Zulu: a descriptive analysis of the translation of Achebe's Things fall apart into Zulu -- D. N. Mkhize -- The plight of a hero in Achebe's Things fall apart / Patrick C. Nnoromele -- Undignified details: the colonial subject of law / Ravit Reichman -- "A mouth with which to tell the story": silence, violence, and speech in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Joseph R. Slaughter -- Realising irony's post/colonial promise: global sense and local meaning in Things fall apart and "Ruins of a great house" / Mac Fenwick -- Making use of the past in Things fall apart / Oliver Lovesey -- The depiction of masculinity in classic Nigerian literature / Frank Salamone -- Problematizing polygyny in the historical novels of Chinua Achebe: the role of the Western feminist scholar / Andrea Powell Wolfe -- The possibilities and pitfalls of ethnographic readings: narrative complexity in Things fall apart / Carey Snyder.