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]
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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
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.