Bibliography on Chinua Achebe
Three Works by Author:
- Achebe, Chinua.
Morning Yet on Creation Day: Essays.
Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1975.
- Achebe, Chinua.
No Longer at Ease.
New York, I. Obolensky, 1961.
- Achebe, Chinua.
Things Fall Apart.
New York: Fawcett Crest, 1959 1989.
General Criticism:
- Carroll, David.
Chinua Achebe.
New York: Twayne Publishers, 1970.
- Clarke, Becky.
"The African Writers Series—
Celebrating Forty Years of Publishing Distinction."
Research in African Literatures 34.2 (2003): 163-174.
- Coundouriotis, Eleni. Claiming History: Colonialism, Ethnography, and the Novel. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
- Ezenwa-Ohaeto. Chinua Achebe: A Biography. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.
- Gikandi. Simon. Reading Chinua Achebe: Language & Ideology in Fiction. London: J. Currey; Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann ; Nairobi: Heinemann Kenya, 1991.
- Ngûgî wa Thiong’o.
Decolonising the Mind: the Politics of Language in African Literature.
London: J. Currey/Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1986.
- Okechukwu, Chinwe Christiana. Achebe the Orator: the Art of Persuasion in Chinua Achebe's Novels. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2001.
- Onwuemene, Michael C. "Limits of Transliteration: Nigerian Writers' Endeavors toward a National Literary Language." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 114:5 (1999 Oct), 1055-66.
- Peterson, Kirsten Holst & Anna Rutherford, eds. Chinua Achebe: A Celebration. Oxford, Portsmouth/Sydney: Heinemann/Dangeroo Press, 1990.
- Laurence, Margaret. "The Thickets of our Separateness: Chinua Achebe." Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists. Second Printing. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1979.
Things Fall Apart:
- Begam, Richard. "Achebe's Sense of an Ending: History and Tragedy in Things Fall Apart", Studies in the Novel, 29:3 (1997 Fall), 396-411. Also available at Studies in the Novel.
- Jeyifo, Biodun.
"Okonkwo and His Mother: Things Fall Apart and Issues of Gender in the Constitution of African Postcolonial Discourse."
Callaloo 16.4 On "Post-Colonial Discourse": A Special Issue (Autumn 1993): 847-858.
- Ogbaa, Kalu. Understanding "Things Fall Apart": A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.
- Okpala, Jude Chudi.
"Igbo Metaphysics in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart".
Callaloo 25.2 (2002): 559-566.
- Nwabueze, Emeka, "Theoretical Construction and Constructive Theorizing on the Execution of Ikemefuna in Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Study in Critical Dualism",
Research in African Literatures 31.2 (2000).
- Wise, Christopher,
"Excavating the New Republic: Post-colonial Subjectivity in Achebe's Things Fall Apart", Callaloo 22.4 (1999).
No Longer at Ease:
Bibliography compiled by Thomas Ward, March 6, 2001.