Things Fall Apart
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Introduction
Background on African Literature Written in English
Information about Chinua Achebe
Get an Overview with Reference Sources
- Reference Books in the Garver Room
REF 325.3 C71P V.1-3 Colonialism : an international, social, cultural, and political encyclopedia REF 809 AF8 African writers REF 809 C761 2004 v.1-186 Contemporary literary criticism : annual cumulative title index. REF 809.04 M95AM Multicultural writers since 1945 : an A-to-Z guide REF 820.9 B771 V.2 British writers classics. Vol. II REF 823.09 C86 2000 V.1 Critical survey of long fiction. REF 960 AF3 (2003) Africa, 2003 REF 960 Ar6h Historical Dictionary of Civil Wars in Africa REF 960 c14 The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Africa REF 960 En19 Encyclopedia of Pre-Colonial Africa REF 960 En193 Encyclopedia of African Nations and Civilizations REF 960 H27f From Afar to Zulu: a Dictionary of African Cultures REF 960 M96c Cultural Atlas of Africa REF 960.03 P146E (v. 1-5) African History and Culture REF 960.32 C77a African Political Facts since 1945 REF 967 En19 v.4 Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara
- Electronic access to Reference Sources
Oxford African American Studies Center
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Delve Deeper with Books
After getting an overview with reference sources, it is time to start searching the online catalog for books that focus more specifically on the topic you have chosen. Click on the links below to see books available in suggested subject areas.
African Literature
Africa -- Colonial influence -- Historiography.
African fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Women and literature -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
Here are some selected titles from the OWHL collection that may be helpful to you:
Understanding Things fall apart : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents / Kalu Ogbaa.
Understanding Things fall apart : selected essays and criticism / edited by Solomon O. Iyasere.
Chinua Achebe : a novelist and a portraitist of his society / Christophe Tshikala Kambaji.
Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
The African novel in English : an introduction / M. Keith Booker.
The emergence of African fiction / Larson, Charles R.
Conversations with Chinua Achebe / edited by Bernth Lindfors.
Chinua Achebe : a biography / Ezenwa-Ohaeto.
Still not finding what you want? Try doing a keyword search in the Online Catalog or ask a librarian!!
Find Articles in Electronic Databases
| Biography Resource Center | Almost a million biographies including full text of the complete Marquis Who's Who(R). Has the full content of Contemporary Authors. Source citation is at the end of each article. |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics | The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics collection offers over 1500 comprehensive and accessible essays on major authors, periods and genres, written by experts and designed for student readers. For the author Companions each writer is placed in literary and historical context; their major works are analysed, either in separate chapters or grouped according to theme, and their influence on later writers assessed. The generic and topical Companions cover periods of English literature such as Old English or the Victorian Novel, and literary genres such as Modernism or Greek Tragedy, giving the student vital contextual information about political, social, religious and artistic relationships. The Companions to Classical Civilisation examine key periods and aspects of the civilisations of ancient Greece and Rome. **See The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies in this database |
| Oxford English Dictionary | The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet. |
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| Literary Reference Center | Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive literary reference database, which includes a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. It is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, and hundreds of literary journals. It also contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works. |
| Literature Online (LION) | A databases containing 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 168 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. |
| Contemporary Literary Criticism | Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study. Updated monthly, Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select allows users to search by author name, title of work, nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more. |
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Examine Literary Criticism of Things Fall Apart
See Reference Sources in print (Garver Room) or electronic access links above.
Sites on the Free Web for Additional Information
Stanford University Library Website on Africa
University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center
Both of the above sites contain pathfinders for many areas of African study, including history, economics, the arts, gender studies, and much more.
How To Use OWH Library Resources
Try this search: Achebe
TIP: Plan ahead as books that are requested from other libraries can take several days to arrive.
- Using Books on Academic Reserve
- Using Periodicals
- Using OWHL's Electronic Resources
- Using the Free Internet
Citation and Plagiarism
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