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Product Description: This title offers an in-depth examination of colonialism as presented in Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart, as well as contemporary perspectives on this issue. Discussions include the use of language to convey status and power, the clash of Igbo and European cultures, the loss of personal identity, and the different faces of neo-colonialism...read more

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Product Description: A collection of critical reviews that investigate the background of industrialism in the works of John Steinbeck.