Achebe and Friends at Umuahia: The Making of a Literary Elite: 1 (African Articulations) - Softcover

Ochiagha, Terri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847011969 ISBN 13: 9781847011961

Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2018

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Ochiagha's book on the school and its prodigies is well researched and engagingly readable. She displays the precision of an archaeologist, the pedantic nature of a historian, the intuition of an anthropologist and the vivid, engaged imagination of a literary critic in her writing. The dedication she shows, in building up the lives of these iconic writers from various sources, including their school assignments, is extremely impressive...Ochiagha has done literary history a great service. THE JOHANNESBURG REVIEW OF BOOKS

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Maps the literary awakening of the young intellectuals who became known as Nigeria's "first-generation" of postcolonial writers: Chinua Achebe, Elechi Amadi, Chike Momah, Christopher Okigbo, Chukwuemeka Ike, Gabriel Okara, Ken Saro-Wiwa and I.C. Aniebo. 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 and examines the implications 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 is a Teaching Fellow in the History of Modern Africa at King's College, London and a Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. She was previously a British Academy Newton Fellow at the University of Sussex.

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• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1847011969
• ISBN 13: 9781847011961
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 218