Ken Saro-Wiwa : : Writer and Political Activist / / ed. by Aubrey McPhail, Craig W. McLuckie.
An interdisciplinary assessment of Saro-Wiwa’s exceptional life and work, exploring both his literary output and his broad-ranging public roles.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2000 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. The Context -- 1. Ken Saro-Wiwa, or “The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger” -- 2. A Political Assessment: Genocide in Nigeria: The Ogoni Tragedy -- Part 2. The Literary Experiments -- 3. Literary Memoirs and Diaries: Soyinka, Amadi, and Saro-Wiwa -- 4. The Poetry: Songs in a Time of War -- 5. The Short Fiction: A Forest of Flowers and Adaku and Other Stories -- 6. The Novel: Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English -- 7. Pipe Dreams: Ken Saro-Wiwa, Environmental Justice, and Microminority Rights -- 8. “Buried Beneath Six Feet of Crude Oil”: State-Sponsored Death and the Absent Body of Ken Saro-Wiwa -- 9. Saro-Wiwa the Publisher -- Part 4. Popular Media -- 10. The Children’s Series -- 11. Dream of Sologa, Eneka, and The Supreme Commander: The Theater of Ken Saro-Wiwa -- Part 5. Epilogue -- 12. “From This Hurt to the Unquestioning World”: Seven Poems from Delta Blues -- Appendixes -- Appendix 1: Chronology of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Life -- Appendix 2: Chronology of the Nigerian Civil War -- Appendix 3: An Annotated Bibliography -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book |
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Summary: | An interdisciplinary assessment of Saro-Wiwa’s exceptional life and work, exploring both his literary output and his broad-ranging public roles. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781685854461 9783110784268 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781685854461 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Aubrey McPhail, Craig W. McLuckie. |