Things fall apart as a historical fiction

1. Name: Dhruvi Chavda
Paper: The New Literature
Subject: “Things Fall Apart as a Historical
Fiction”
Semester : 4
Submitted to : Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar university

2. “Things Fall Apart”
Author : Chinua Achebe
Cover artist : C. W. Barton
Language : English
Genre : Historical fiction
Publisher : William
Heinemann Ltd.
Publication date : 1958

3. Historical
It is based on or
concerned with
events in history.
Fiction
literary work whose content is
produced by the imagination
and is not necessarily based on
fact. The category of literature
comprising works of this kind,
including novels, short stories,
and plays.

4. What is Historical Fiction?
 Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the
plot takes place in a setting located in the past.
 It is an ambiguous term.

5. “Things Fall Apart as a historical novel”
When the novel was published it was a time often
called the Nigerian Renaissance because in that
period a large number of very strong Nigerian
writers began to create a powerful new literature
that drew on the traditional oral literature,
European literature and the changing times in
Nigeria and in Africa at large writers as varied as Ben
Okri and whole Soyinka developed in the context of
the ideas and energy of the Nigerian Renaissance,
but Achebe is considered one of the earliest and
best novelist to come one of the top English –
speaking novelists of his time anywhere.

6. “Things fall Apart” particular focuses on the
early experience of colonialism as it occurred in
Nigeria in the late 1800's, from the first days of
contact with the British to widespread British
administration.
Achebe is interested in British administration.
They also interested in showing Igbo society in the
period of transition when rooted, traditional
values are put in conflict with an alien and more
powerful culture that will tear them apart.

7. Before British colonial rule, the Igbo were a
politically fragmented group.
IGBO SOCIETY

8. Achebe paints a vivid picture of Igbo society both
before and after the arrival of white men, and
avoids the temptation to idealize culture.
 In this context, he believe that the novelist must
'have a social commitment”.
"The writer cannot be excused from the task of
reduction and regeneration that must be done.