Ochiagha | Achebe and Friends at Umuahia - The Making of a Literary Elite | Buch | 978-1-84701-126-8 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 216 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 344 g

Reihe: African Articulations

Ochiagha

Achebe and Friends at Umuahia - The Making of a Literary Elite


Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-84701-126-8
Verlag: Boydell and Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 216 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 344 g

Reihe: African Articulations

ISBN: 978-1-84701-126-8
Verlag: Boydell and Brewer

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The author meticulously contextualises the experiences of Achebe and his peers as students at Government College Umuahia and argues for a re-assessment of this influential group of Nigerian writers in relation to the literary culture fostered by the school and its tutors.

WINNER OF THE ASAUK FAGE & OLIVER PRIZE 2016

This is the first in-depth scholarly study of the literary awakening of the young intellectuals who became known as Nigeria's "first-generation" writers in the post-colonialperiod. Terri Ochiagha's research focuses on Chinua Achebe, Elechi Amadi, Chike Momah, Christopher Okigbo and Chukwuemeka Ike, and also discusses the experiences of Gabriel Okara, Ken Saro-Wiwa and I.C. Aniebo, in the context of their education in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s at Government College, Umuahia. The author provides fresh perspectives on Postcolonial and World literary processes, colonial education in British Africa, literary representations of colonialism and Chinua Achebe's seminal position in African literature. She demonstrates how each of the writers used this very particular education to shape their own visions of the world in which they operated and examines the implications that this had for African literature as a whole.

Supplementary material is available online of some of the original sources. See: http://boybrew.co/9781847011091_2

Terri Ochiagha holds one of the prestigious British Academy Newton International Fellowships (2014-16) hosted by the School of English, University of Sussex. She was previously a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, University of Oxford.

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Ochiagha, Terri

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Weitere Infos & Material

Introduction: The Umuahian Connection - Terri Ochiagha
Laying the Foundation: The Fisher Days, 1929-1939
"The Eton of the East": William Simpson and the Umuahian Renaissance
Studying the Humanities at Government College, Umuahia
Young Political Renegades: Nationalist Undercurrents at Government College, Umuahia, 1944-1945
"Something New in Ourselves": First Literary Aspirations
The Dangerous Potency of the Crossroads: Colonial Mimicry in Ike, Momah & Okigbo's Reimaginings of the Primus Inter Pares Years
An Uncertain Legacy: I.N.C. Aniebo and Ken Saro-Wiwa in the Umuahia of the 1950s
The Will to Shine as One: Affiliation and Friendship beyond the College Walls
Appendices

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