OCU READS

Library Resource Guide

Reviews of Purple Hibiscus

EBSCOhost offers the largest range of full text articles plus citations to more articles available in the library or through interlibrary loan. You can search it directly from the library’s home page or simply use this list of reviews of Purple Hibiscus

NewsBank includes hundreds of articles about Chimamanda Adichie and Purple Hibiscus from newspapers and news services around the world. You can search the database directly for the complete list. Here are a few representative samples:

• Ufine, Ayodele. "For Purple Hibiscus, the Reading Now Begins." This Day (Nigeria). 13 July 2004. NewsBank, Oklahoma City U. Lib. 25 July 2007.


• "20 Page-turning reads [Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie]." The Times (London, England). 28 January 2006. NewsBank, Oklahoma City U. Lib. 25 July 2007.


• Hartl, John. "Books in Brief: Fiction & Poetry." The New York Times Book Review 23 November 2003. NewsBank, Oklahoma City U. Lib. 25 July 2007.

Books

Use the library’s catalog for items the library owns or WorldCat for items available within a few weeks through “interlibrary loan.” Here are some key words to help find relevant books:

• Religion and Africa


• Christianity and Africa


• Church and Africa


• Politics and Nigeria


• Political and Nigeria


• Political and Africa


• Politics and Africa


• Social and Nigeria


• Social and Africa


• “family violence”


• “family violence” and religious


• “domestic abuse”


• Religious and fundamentalism


• Music and Africa


• Theater and Africa


• Theatre and Africa


• Drama and Africa


• Dance and Africa

Electronic Books

Electronic Books are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week directly from your computer. Here is a selection of books on Nigeria from the library’s electronic collection:

• Falola, Toyin. The History of Nigeria. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. Ebrary, Oklahoma City U. Lib. 30 July 2007.


• Falola, Toyin. Culture and Customs of Nigeria. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001. Ebrary, Oklahoma City U. Lib. 30 July 2007. Ebrary, Oklahoma City U. Lib. 30 July 2007.


• Okeke-Ihejirika, Philomina E. Negotiating Power and Privilege Igbo Career Women in Contemporary Nigeria. Athens, Ohio: Center for International Studies, Ohio University, 2004. Ebrary, Oklahoma City U. Lib. 30 July 2007.


• Background note, Nigeria. [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of African Affairs, 2007. 30 July 2007.

Articles

The library has access to thousands of Articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers about themes included in Purple Hibiscus. Many of these are available directly from the computer. Others are available in the library or within a few weeks through “interlibrary loan”. Good sources include:

RELIGION ARTICLES
EBSCOhost’s ATLA Religion Online with ATLAS Serials

• Art (from EBSCOhost default databases)


• Biology (from Biological Abstracts)


• Chemistry (from EBSCOhost default databases)


• Computer Science(use IEEE Computer Society Digital Library)


• Dance (Use Grove Music Online and search for
  Nigeria and dance or Africa and dance or from EBSCOhost’s International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance, Music Index and RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Nigeria and dance or Dance – Africa
  
• Economic profiles (from Business Source Premier)


• Economics (from EconLit)


• Literature (from MLA International Bibliography)


• Market research reports (from Business Source Premier)


• Mathematics (from EBSCOhost default databases)


• Music (Use Grove Music Online and search for
  Nigeria or Africa or from EBSCOhost’s International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance, Music Index and RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, search for Music and Nigeria or Music and Africa


• Nursing (from the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)


• Philosophy (from EBSCOhost default databases)


• Physics (from EBSCOhost default databases)


• Psychology (from PSYCinfo)


• Theater (from EBSCOhost’s International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance and Communication and Mass Media Complete) search for Theater and Nigeria or Theater and Africa