期刊名称：Lapis Lazuli : an International Literary Journal
电子版ISSN：2249-4529
出版年度：2012
卷号：2
期号：1
出版社：Pinter Society of India
摘要：Albert Chinualumogu Achebe (born 1930) in his novel Things Fall Apart depicts beautifully the falling apart of things once well settled or the demolishing of a well settled civilization of the Ibo (Igbo) clan of Nigeria, West Africa. The novel begins with the introduction and description of the protagonist – Okonkwo – who is “well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond”. He is a man of masculine power, courage and bravery. He is a self made farmer by profession and a successful wrestler by hobby. He is a hardworking man and shows no weakness – emotional or otherwise – to anyone. He is one of the leaders of his village Umuofia and his place in that society is „what he has striven for his entire life‟. He is known and esteemed as a great warrior in all the nine villages including Umuofia, his own village. Umuofia is the most powerful village among all the nine neighboring villages of the region and can be considered as the capital or the representing village of the same. It has a well established civilization and the same exists in other villages too. The residents of these villages are the people from Ibo (Igbo) Clan, which is the ethnicity of the author himself.
