{"id":6680,"date":"2013-03-31T16:36:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T20:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=6680"},"modified":"2013-03-31T16:36:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T20:36:48","slug":"chinua-achebe-1930-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/chinua-achebe-1930-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week of April 1, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the News: <\/em><\/strong>Chinua Achebe and African Literature<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Award-winning Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has died at the age of 82. His works include Things Fall Apart <\/em>(1958), No Longer at Ease <\/em>(1960), Beware, Soul Brother: Poems<\/em> (1972), and the children\u2019s book, Chike and the River<\/em>. At the time of his death, Achebe was the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and a Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Achebe\u2019s <\/em><\/strong>Things Fall Apart
\n<\/strong>By Ode Ogede. Continuum, 2007
\nCall Number: PR3987.9 .A3 T5366 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

African Literature as Political Philosophy
\n<\/em><\/strong>By M.S.C. Okolo. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
\nCall Number: PR9340.5 .O56 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

Anthills of the Savannah
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Chinua Achebe. Anchor Press, 1988
\nCall Number: PR3987.9 .A3 A83 1988<\/a><\/p>\n

Arrow of God
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Chinua Achebe. Anchor Books, 1974
\nCall Number: PR9387.9 .A3 A88 1989<\/a><\/p>\n

Beware, Soul Brother: Poems
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Chinua Achebe. Heinemann Educational, 1972
\nCall Number: PR3987.9 .A3 B4 1972<\/a><\/p>\n

Chike and the River
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Chinua Achebe. Cambridge University Press, 1966
\nCall Number: \u00a0PR9387.9 .A3 C54 1966<\/a><\/p>\n

The Chinua Achebe Encyclopedia
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by M. Keith Booker. Greenwood Press, 2003
\nCall Number: PR9387.9 .A3 Z459 2003<\/a> (Boca Raton Reference \u2013 Non-circulating)<\/p>\n

Chinua Achebe, Teacher of Light: A Biography
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Tijan M. Sallah and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Africa World Press, 2003
\nCall Number: PR9387.9 .A3 Z873 2003<\/a><\/p>\n

Chinua Achebe\u2019s <\/em><\/strong>Things Fall Apart
\n<\/strong>Edited by Harold Bloom. Bloom\u2019s Literary Criticism, 2010
\nCall Number: Available online via EBSCOhost<\/a><\/p>\n

Chinua Achebe\u2019s <\/em><\/strong>Things Fall Apart
\n<\/strong>By David Whittaker and Mpalive-Hangson Msiska. Routledge, 2007
\nCall Number: PR3987.9 .A3 T538 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

Chinua Achebe\u2019s <\/em><\/strong>Things Fall Apart: A Casebook
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Isidore Okpewho. Oxford University Press, 2003
\nCall Number: PR3987.9 .A3 T52397 2003<\/a><\/p>\n

Collected Poems
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Chinua Achebe. Anchor Books, 2004
\nCall Number: PR3987.9 .A3 A17 2004<\/a><\/p>\n

Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse in the Novels of Y\u014fm Sang-s\u014fp, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Soonsik Kim. P. Lang, 2004
\nCall Number: PN871 .K56 2004<\/a><\/p>\n

The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Chinua Achebe. Knopf, 2009
\nCall Number: PR3987.9 .A3 Z46 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

The Fiction of Chinua Achebe
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Jago Morrison. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
\nCall Number: PR9387.9 .A3 Z827 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

Girls at War and Other Stories
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Chinua Achebe. Anchor Books, 1991
\nCall Number: PR3987.9 .A3 G57 1991<\/a><\/p>\n

Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Chinua Achebe. Doubleday, 1988
\nCall Number: PR3987.9 .A3 H6 1989<\/a><\/p>\n

A Man of the People
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Chinua Achebe. Anchor Books, 1989
\nCall Number: PR3987.9 .A3 M3 1989<\/a><\/p>\n

The Master Artist: Critical Perspectives on Achebe\u2019s Fiction
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Ernest N. Emenyonu. Africa World Press, 2004
\nCall Number: Available online via ebrary<\/a><\/p>\n

No Longer at Ease
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Chinua Achebe. Anchor Books, 1994
\nCall Number: PR3987.9 .A3 N6 1994<\/a> (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

Shaken Wisdom: Irony and Meaning in Postcolonial African Fiction
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gloria Nne Onyeoziri. University of Virginia Press, 2011
\nCall Number: PQ3989.2 .K58 Z79 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Chinua Achebe. Penguin Press, 2012
\nCall Number: PR3987.9 .A3 Z46 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

Things Fall Apart
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Chinua Achebe. Anchor Books, 1994
\nCall Number: PR3987.9 .A3 T5 1994<\/a><\/p>\n

The Trouble with Nigeria<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Chinua Achebe. Heinemann Educational Books, 1984
\nCall Number: DT515.8 .A67<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Week of April 1, 2013 In the News: Chinua Achebe and African Literature Award-winning Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has died at the age of 82. His works include Things Fall Apart (1958), No Longer at Ease (1960), Beware, Soul Brother: Poems (1972), and the children\u2019s book, Chike and the River. At the time of his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[940,939,941],"class_list":["post-6680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-in-the-library","category-in-the-news","tag-african-literature","tag-chinua-achebe","tag-nigerian-authors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6680"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6694,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680\/revisions\/6694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}