Letters from Khartoum. D.R. Ewen

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46109-3
Verlag: de Gruyter Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Reihe: Postcolonial Lives

Letters from Khartoum is a partial biography of Scottish educator, D.R. Ewen, who taught English Literature at the University of Khartoum from the time of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium through to Independence and the October 1964 Revolution. The administrative history of the then unified nation – North (Middle Eastern) and South (African) – makes the Sudan a unique setting to explore the workings of colonial education. The purpose of teaching English literature there was to remake the Muslim Sudanese of the North as the proxy agents of British culture who would administrate the first independent nation in Africa. But Ewen also was remade in the process – by his relationships with his students and colleagues, and by his own teaching innovations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McDougall, Russell

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Hochschuldidaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

A Note on the Text

Historical Nomenclature

List of Figures

Introduction

1951 – Native Quarter

1952 – Crossing the Bar

1953 – Serpent’s Tooth

1954 – Assassins at the Tea Party

1955 – Mutiny

1956 – Crisis

1957 – Birds over the Bottomless Lake

1958 – An End to Democracy

1959 – Bogged on the Runway

1960 – The Year of Africa

1961 – Cold War

1962 – Backwater Paradise

1963 – The Widening Gyre

1964 – Revolution

1965 – Leaving

Afterword

A Who’s Who of Ewen’s Sudan

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Russell McDougall, Emeritus Professor, University of New England (Australia), has published widely on African, Australian and Caribbean Literatures. His most recent book, coedited with Anne Collett and Sue Thomas, is Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather: Typhoons, Hurricanes, and Cyclones (2017).