Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 735 g
Reihe: Matatu
The Legacy of Ezenwa-Ohaeto in Nigerian Writing
Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 735 g
Reihe: Matatu
ISBN: 978-90-420-2168-6
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi
The book is divided into six sections. “In Memoriam” contains personal tributes by long-standing colleagues, mentors and friends. “Poetry and Fiction” collects the voices of three generations of Nigerian writing from the 1960s to the present day, followed by poetic and pictorial insights into the domestic and social life of the scholar and family man. Section Four comprises two interviews, while Sections Five and Six are devoted to critical evaluations of Ezenwa–Ohaeto’s work and to contemporary perspectives on Nigerian literature respectively.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Englisch, Englische Literatur außerhalb Europas
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
Weitere Infos & Material
Illustrations
Frontispiece
Preface
EZENWA–OHAETO: Raising a Chant
SECTION 1: IN MEMORIAM
Bernth LINDFORS: Ezenwa–Ohaeto (1958–2005): Obituary
Eckhard BREITINGER: In Memoriam Ezenwa–Ohaeto
Ernest N. EMENYONU: Gone Too Soon! Thoughts at Ezenwa–Ohaeto’s Graveside on 23 December 2005
Remi RAJI: The Last Conversation: “When the village cock dies…”
SECTION 2: POETRY & FICTION
Gabriel OKARA: We Shared
Okinba LAUNKO: Once Again, a Familiar Song
Tanure OJAIDE: The Minstrel Wails
Odia OFEIMUN: Sermon of a King Hornsman
Esiaba IROBI: Elegy for Ezenwa–Ohaeto
Akachi ADIMORA-EZEIGBO: Shadow of Death
Ogochukwu PROMISE: Elegy: Tribute to Ezenwa–Ohaeto
Obododimma OHA: Destinations
Chika UNIGWE: Sugar in My Bowl
Toyin ADEWALE–GABRIEL: Stuttgart Blues
SECTION 3: THE MAN, THE MINSTREL, THE MOMENT
Chinua EZENWA–OHAETO: Three Poems
Ngozi EZENWA–OHAETO: The Chants are Forever
EZENWA IN PICTURES
SECTION 4: INTERVIEWS
Paul O. ONOVOH: Interview with Ezenwa–Ohaeto on the Publication of the Biography of Chinua Achebe
Paul O. ONOVOH: Ezenwa–Ohaeto as I knew him. Ihe ahu ka na enwu kwa! / The Light still lights the path
Paul O. ONOVOH: Of Courage and Resilience: An Interview with Ezenwa–Ohaeto
SECTION 5: EZENWA–OHAETO: CRITICAL EVALUATIONS
Chantal ZABUS: Informed Consent: Ezenwa–Ohaeto between Past and Future Uses of Pidgin
Obododimma OHA: Shepherding the Chants Home: Language and Mmanwu Minstrelsy in Ezenwa–Ohaeto’s Poetry
J.O.J. NWACHUKWU–AGBADA: Ezenwa–Ohaeto: Poet of the Njakiri Genre
Sule E. EGYA: The Minstrel as Social Critic: A Reading of Ezenwa–Ohaeto’s The Chants of a Minstrel
SECTION 6: CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON NIGERIAN LITERATURE
Lyn INNES: Chinua Achebe and the Creation of a Democratic Novel
Susan ARNDT: Paradigms of an Intertextual Dialogue: ‘Race’ and Gender in Nigerian Literature
Kahiudi CLAVER MABANA: Léopold S. Senghor, Birago Diop et Chinua Achebe: Maîtres de la parole
Patrice NGANANG: Le roman des détritus
Tejumola OLANIYAN: Femi Osofisan: Revisionary Notes on Familial Relations
Frank SCHULZE–ENGLER: Civil Society and the Struggle for Democratic Transition in Modern Nigerian Drama: Ken Saro–Wiwa’s The Transistor Radio and Wole Soyinka’s From Zia, with Love
Aderemi RAJI–OYELADE: Representational Exposures: The Album of Nigerian Women’s Poetry (1985–2006)
Isidore DIALA: Nigeria and the Poetry of Travails: The Niger Delta in the Poetry of Uche Umez
Obi NWAKANMA: Okigbo Agonistes: Postcolonial Subjectivity in “Limits” and “Distances”
Chukwuemeka IKE: Contemporary Nigerian Youth and the Reading Culture
APPENDIX
Christine MATZKE and Obiwu, with Marcela KNAPP: A Checklist of Ezenwa–Ohaeto’s Creative and Critical Writings
EZENWA–OHAETO: The Post Chant
Notes on Contributors and Editors
Notes for Contributors