Reference & Background
Essays on the life and works of Chinua Achebe, complete works and suggested reading bibliographies.
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Literature Online (LION)Biographical overview, complete bibliography, journal articles, audio & video recordings, and recommended Web sites
Interviews & Articles
An interview with Chinua Achebe and The Paris Review, "The Art of Fiction, no. 134, winter 1994
Things Fall Apart
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...
-W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming," 1920
Research and Criticism
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MLA International Bibliography is the definitive literary research database, indexing the most authoritative scholarship on Chinua Achebe from books and academic journals. MLA indexes and links to the entire JSTOR literary research collection as well as linking to many other full-text providers.
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Chinua Achebe
Born: November 16, 1930
Nationality: Nigerian
Activities: Novelist, Poet, Professor
Literary Periods: Postwar Period, Twentieth Century
Literary Movements: 20th Century Postcolonialism
Literary Criticism
books
Collected Poems by Publication Date: 2004-08-10
Home and Exile by Publication Date: 2000-07-27In Home and Exile, Achebe reveals the man behind his powerful work. Here is an extended exploration of the European impact on African culture, viewed through the most vivid experience available to the author--his own life.
Arrow of God by Publication Date: 1965
