Chinua Achebe

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**Chinua Achebe**  (natus *Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe* die 16 Novembris 1930, mortuus die 21 Martii 2013) fuit scriptor, poëta, professor, ac criticus Nigerianus. Prima mythistoria eius, *Things Fall Apart* (Res dissolvuntur, 1958) est opus omnium litterarum Africanarum oralium quod latissime legitur.

Gente Igbo natus, in oppido Ogidi Nigeriae meridianae crescit. In schola propter operam excellentem praemium ad medicinae studendum consecutus est, sed in Collegio Universitatis (nunc Universitate Ibadanensi) pro medicina litteris Anglicis studuit. 

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## Bibliographia 
* Achebe, Chinua (1965). "English and the African Writer". *Transition* **18**: 27–30. .
* Achebe, Chinua (1975). *Morning Yet on Creation Day*. London: Heinemann Educational Books. .
* Achebe, Chinua (1989). *Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays*. New York: Doubleday. .
* Achebe, Chinua (1994). *Things Fall Apart*. New York: Anchor Books. .
* Agetua, John (ed.) (1977). *Critics on Chinua Achebe, 1970–76*. Benin City, Nigeria: Bendel Newspapers Corp.
* Azohu, Virginia (1996). "Culture and the Frontiers of Language". In Ihekweazu, Edith. *Eagle on Iroko: Selected Papers from the Chinua Achebe International Symposium, 1990*. Ibadan, Nigeria: Heinemann Educational Books (Nigeria) PLC. .
*Bestman, A. M. (2012). "Reading Chinua Achebe’s *Things Fall Apart* through the Womanist lens: The imperative of the female principle". In C. Anyadike and K. A. Ayoola (eds), *Blazing the Path: Fifty Years of Things Fall Apart* (155–173). Ibadan: HEBN Publishers Plc. 
* Bicknell, Catherine (1996). "Achebe's Women: Mothers, Priestesses, And Young Urban Professionals". In Ihekweazu, Edith, *Eagle on Iroko: Selected Papers from the Chinua Achebe International Symposium, 1990*. Ibadan, Nigeria: Heinemann Educational Books (Nigeria) PLC. .
* Booker, M. Keith and Simon Gikandi (2003). *The Chinua Achebe Encyclopedia*. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. .
* Clarke, Nana Ayebia, and James Currey (2014), *Chinua Achebe: Tributes & Reflections*. Banbury, Oxfordshire: Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd. .
* Corley, Í. (2009). "Conjecture, hypermasculinity, and disavowal in *Things Fall Apart*". *Interventions*, 11(2), 203–211. 
* Döring, Tobias (1996). *Chinua Achebe und Joyce Cary. Ein postkoloniales Rewriting englischer Afrika-Fiktionen*. Pfaffenweiler, Germany: Centaurus. .
* Egar, Emmanuel Edame (2000). ''The Rhetorical Implications of Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"''. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. .
* Egejuru, Phanuel (1996). "Orethory Okwu Oka: A Neglected Technique in Achebe's Literary Artistry". In Ihekweazu, Edith. *Eagle on Iroko: Selected Papers from the Chinua Achebe International Symposium, 1990*. Ibadan, Nigeria: Heinemann Educational Books (Nigeria) PLC. .
* Egejuru, Phanuel Akubueze (2001). *Chinua Achebe: Pure and Simple, an Oral Biography*. Stoke-on-Trent: Malthouse Press. .
* Ekwe-Ekwe, Herbert (2001). *African Literature in Defence of History: An Essay on Chinua Achebe*. Dakar: African Renaissance. .
* Emenyonu, Ernest N. (1991). "Chinua Achebe's *Things Fall Apart*: A Classic Study in Colonial Diplomatic Tactlessness". In Petersen, Kirsten Holst, and Anna Rutherford (eds). *Chinua Achebe: A Celebration*. Oxford, England: Dangaroo Press. .
* Emenyonu, Ernest N. (1996). "Foreword: For Whom The Honour Is Due". In Ihekweazu, Edith. *Eagle on Iroko: Selected Papers from the Chinua Achebe International Symposium, 1990*. Ibadan, Nigeria: Heinemann Educational Books (Nigeria) PLC. .
* Emenyonu, Ernest N. (ed.) (2004). *Emerging Perspectives on Chinua Achebe*. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press.  (v. 1),  (v. 2).
* Ezenwa-Ohaeto (1997). *Chinua Achebe: A Biography*. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. .
* Franklin, Ruth. "After Empire: Chinua Achebe and the Great African Novel". *The New Yorker*, 26 May 2008. Retrieved 7 December 2010.
* Gera, Anjali (2001). *Three Great African Novelists*. New Delhi: Creative Books. .
* Gikandi, Simon (1991). *Reading Chinua Achebe: Language and Ideology in Fiction*. London: James Currey. .
* Innes, Catherine Lynette (1990). *Chinua Achebe*. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
* Innes, C. L., and Bernth Lindfors (eds) (1978). *Critical Perspectives on Chinua Achebe*. Washington: Three Continents Press. .
* Jaya Lakshmi, Rao V. (2003). *Culture and Anarchy in the Novels of Chinua Achebe*. Bareilly: Prakash Book Depot.
* Jeyifo, B. (1993). "Okonkwo and his mother: *Things Fall Apart* and issues of gender in the constitution of African postcolonial discourse". *Callaloo*, 16(4), 847–858.
* July, Robert W. (1987). *An African Voice*. Durham (NC): Duke University Press. .
* Killam, G. D. (1977). *The Writings of Chinua Achebe*. London: Heinemann Educational Books. .
* Laurence, Margaret (2001). *Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists, 1952–1966*. Alberta: University of Alberta Press. .
* Lawtoo, Nidesh (2013). "A Picture of Africa: Frenzy, Counternarrative, Mimesis." *Modern Fictions Studies* 59.1 (2013):26–52.
* Lindfors, Bernth (1982). *Early Nigerian Literature*. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Ltd. .
* Mezu, Rose Ure (2006). *Chinua Achebe: The Man and His Works*. London: Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd. .
* Naydenova, Natalia, Salihou Camara (2013). *Littérature africaine et identité: un hommage à Chinua Achebe*. Paris: Editions L'Harmattan. .
* Niven, Alistair (1991). "Chinua Achebe and the Possibility of Modern Tragedy". In Petersen, Kirsten Holst, and Anna Rutherford, eds. *Chinua Achebe: A Celebration*. Oxford, England: Dangaroo Press. .
* Njoku, Benedict Chiaka (1984). *The Four Novels of Chinua Achebe: A Critical Study*. New York: P. Lang. .
* Nnolim, Charles (1996). "The Artist in Search of The Right Leadership: Achebe As A Social Critic". In Ihekweazu, Edith. *Eagle on Iroko: Selected Papers from the Chinua Achebe International Symposium, 1990*. Ibadan, Nigeria: Heinemann Educational Books (Nigeria) PLC. .
* Ogbaa, Kalu (1999). *Understanding Things Fall Apart*. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. .
* Ogede, Ode (2001). *Achebe and the Politics of Representation: Form Against Itself, From Colonial Conquest and Occupation to Post-Independence Disillusionment*. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press. .
* Ojinmah, Umelo (1991). *Chinua Achebe: New Perspectives*. Ibadan: Spectrum Books Limited. ISBN 978-978-2461-16-2.
* Okpewho, Isidore (ed.) (2003). ''Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart": A Casebook*. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514763-6.
* Petersen, Kirsten Holst; Anna Rutherford, eds (1991). *Chinua Achebe: A Celebration*. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-435-08060-0.
* Sallah, Tijan M. and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (2003). *Chinua Achebe, Teacher of Light: A Biography*. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press. .
* Shamim, Amna (2013). *Colonial/Postcolonial Paradigms in Chinua Achebe's Novels (TFA & AOG)*. Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing. .
* Tredell, Nicolas (2000). *Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness''. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11923-8.
* Udumukwu, O. (2012). "Violence against Achebe’s women: Onkonkwo and 'The Gun that Never Shot'". In Helen Chukwuma (ed.), *Achebe’s Women: Imagism and Power* (201–221). Trenton: Africa World Press. 
* Yankson, Kofi E. (1990). ''Chinua Achebe's Novels: A Sociolinguistic Perspective*. Uruowulu-Obosi, Nigeria: Pacific Publishers. ISBN 978-978-2347-79-4.
* Yousaf, Nahem (2003). *Chinua Achebe''. Tavistock: Northcote House in Association with the British Council. .

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