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Ken Saro-Wiwa : writer and political activist / edited by Craig W. McLuckie, Aubrey McPhail.

LIBRA PR9387.9.S27 Z74 2000
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Contributor:
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Biographies.
Physical Description:
x, 291 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000.
Contents:
  • Part 1 The Context
  • 1 Ken Saro-Wiwa, or "The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger" / Charles Lock 3
  • 2 A Political Assessment: Genocide in Nigeria: The Ogoni Tragedy / Joseph McLaren 17
  • Part 2 The Literary Experiments
  • 3 Literary Memoirs and Diaries: Soyinka, Amadi, and Saro-Wiwa / Craig W. McLuckie 29
  • 4 The Poetry: Songs in a Time of War / Tanure Ojaide 53
  • 5 The Short Fiction: A Forest of Flowers and Adaku and Other Stories / Aubrey McPhail 69
  • 6 The Novel: Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English / Maureen N. Eke 87
  • Part 3 The Public Man
  • 7 Pipe Dreams: Ken Saro-Wiwa, Environmental Justice, and Microminority Rights / Rob Nixon 109
  • 8 "Buried Beneath Six Feet of Crude Oil": State-Sponsored Death and the Absent Body of Ken Saro-Wiwa / Misty L. Bastian 127
  • 9 Saro-Wiwa the Publisher / Laura Neame 153
  • Part 4 Popular Media
  • 10 The Children's Series / John LeBlanc 177
  • 11 Dream of Sologa, Eneka, and The Supreme Commander: The Theater of Ken Saro-Wiwa / Chris Dunton 201
  • 12 "From This Hurt to the Unquestioning World": Seven Poems from Delta Blues / Tanure Ojaide, John Lent 215.
Notes:
  • "A three continents book."
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-284) and index.
ISBN:
0894108832
OCLC:
41380517

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