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020			_a9781782044659 (ebook)
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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aPR9387.1 _b.O24 2015
082	0	4	_a820.99661 _223
100	1		_aOchiagha, Terri, _eauthor
245	1	0	_aAchebe and friends at Umuahia : _bthe making of a literary elite / _cTerri Ochiagha
264		1	_aSuffolk : _bBoydell & Brewer, _c2015
300			_a xii, 202 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
500			_aInclude index
520			_aThis is the first in-depth scholarly study of the literary awakening of the young intellectuals who became known as Nigeria's 'first-generation' writers in the post-colonial period. Terri Ochiagha's research focuses on Chinua Achebe, Elechi Amadi, Chike Momah, Christopher Okigbo and Chukwuemeka Ike, and also discusses the experiences of Gabriel Okara, Ken Saro-Wiwa and I.C. Aniebo, in the context of their education in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s at Government College, Umuahia. The author provides fresh perspectives on Postcolonial and World literary processes, colonial education in British Africa, literary representations of colonialism and Chinua Achebe's seminal position in African literature. She demonstrates how each of the writers used this very particular education to shape their own visions of the world in which they operated and examines the implications that this had for African literature as a whole. Supplementary material will be available on-line of some of the original sources. Terri Ochiagha holds one of the prestigious British Academy Newton International Fellowships (2014-16) hosted by the Schoolof English, University of Sussex. She was previously a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, University of Oxford
650		0	_aNigerian literature (English) _y20th century _xHistory and criticism
650		0	_aAuthors, Nigerian _y20th century _xEducation
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