Terri Ochiagha

Achebe and Friends at Umuahia

The Making of a Literary Elite

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Produktbeschreibung

WINNER OF THE ASAUK FAGE & OLIVER PRIZE 2016 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.

Produktdetails

• African Articulations
• Verlag: James Currey
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9781847011961
• ISBN-10: 1847011969
• Artikelnr.: 49557791

Autorenporträt

Terri Ochiagha

Inhaltsangabe

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