Resources
Bibliography for Teachers
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York: Penguin Books, 1959.
Adichie, Chimamanda. “The Danger of a Single Story.” TedTalk (2009). https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story. This TedTalk is a good way to bring in the importance of reading about different perspectives.
Andrews, Kehinde. "Blackness, Empire and Migration: How Black Studies Transforms the Curriculum." Area 52 no. 4 (2020): 701-707.
Clemens, Gayle. “Kehinde Wiley, Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps.” Smarthistory (Dec. 2016). https://smarthistory.org/kehinde-wiley-napoleon-leading-the-army-over-the-alps/. A good overview of the painting and also this has a great image of the painting that a teacher could use in class.
“Diary of a Victorian Dandy.” NMAfA Exhibits. https://africa.si.edu/exhibits/shonibare/dandy.html. Accessed July 21, 2022. This site has a thorough explanation of Shonibare’s work. This also has the image that I will use in class.
Harmon, Wynita. “How to Use Portraits as a Big Idea in the Art Room.” The Art of Education University (2020). https://theartofeducation.edu/2018/03/06/using-portraits-big-idea-traditional-non-traditional-self-portraits-classroom/. This website has great ideas about what the fictional portraits could look like and ways to help brainstorm and think about the final product.
Haxall, Daniel. "In the Spirit of Négritude: Kehinde Wiley in Africa." Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 41 (2017): 126-139. muse.jhu.edu/article/683359. This article is a good overview of Wiley’s artwork and his impact.
Hynes, Nancy. "Yinka Shonibare: Re-Dressing History." African Arts 34, no. 3 (Autumn, 2001): 60-65. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/yinka-shonibare-re-dressing-history/docview/220959003/se-2?accountid=15172.
Mason, Wyatt. “How Kehinde Makes a Masterpiece.” GQ, (April 2013). https://www.gq.com/story/kehinde-wiley. This article goes over Wiley’s process and has some nice pictures of his work.
Mirmotahari, Emad. “History as Project and Source in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.” Postcolonial Studies 14, no. 4 (2011): 373-385. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2011.641912. A great source for context about Achebe’s novel.
“Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, by Thomas Gainsborough, 1750.” Every Picture Tells a Story, https://www.everypicture.org/blank-v5f50. Accessed July 21, 2022. Not only does this have a good picture of the piece, it has a good explanation of the original painting that inspired Shonibare’s work.
Murray, Derrick. “Kehinde Wiley: Splendid Bodies.” Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 21 (2007): 90-101. muse.jhu.edu/article/422756. More great images of Wiley’s work are in this journal article as well as information about his World Stage series and his message behind his works.
Ojaide, Tanure. "African Literature and Its Context: Teaching Teachers of Chinua Achebe's ‘Things Fall Apart.’" Women's Studies Quarterly 25 (1997): 169-177. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40003381. Another great resource that helps teachers teach cultural context for this novel.
Pes, Javier. “Meet Hew Locke, the Artist Who Dresses Up ‘Patriotic’ Statues to Reveal Their Whitewashed Histories.” https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hew-locke-1369636?utm_content=from_artnetnews&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Afternoon%2010%2F12&utm_term=New%20US%20Newsletter%20List. Accessed July 19, 2022. This article not only has the pictures of the works addressed in this unit, it has information about Locke and his process and purpose.
Picton, John. "Yinka Shonibare: Undressing Ethnicity." African Arts 34, no. 3 (Autumn, 2001): 66-73. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/yinka-shonibare-undressing-ethnicity/docview/220992507/se-2?accountid=15172.
“Values, Identities, and Actions.” Project Zero (2020). http://www.pz.harvard.edu/resources/values-identities-actions. This website contains so many strategies for using art in the classroom.
Verges, Francoise. “The Slave at the Louvre: An Invisible Humanity.” Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 38-39 (2016): 8-13. muse.jhu.edu/article/639560.
Zimonjic, Peter. “Authenticity and Hybrid Cultures: The Art of Yinka Shonibare,” National Gallery of Canada, 2015 Apr. 28, https://www.gallery.ca/magazine/your-collection/authenticity-and-hybrid-cultures-the-art-of-yinka-shonibare.
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