Falola / Ezekwem Writing the Nigeria-Biafra War

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78204-773-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 511 Seiten

Examines key contemporary accounts of the civil war and a range of subsequent texts to reveal the ideas behind the conflict and how these frame the understandings of what took place and what it means for contemporary Nigeria.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falola, Toyin

Ezekwem, Ogechukwu

Weitere Mitwirkende

Odoemene, Akachi

Adetayo, Alabi

Okwu, Austine

Jeyifo, Biodun

Oyeniyi, Bukola

Opata, Christian Chukwuma

Obi, Cyril I.

Uchendu, Egodi

Bateman, Fiona

Ugochukwu, Françoise

Uzoigwe, G.N.

Hodges, Hugh

Bryce, Jane

Coffey, Meredith

Ogede, Ode

Aito, Ofure O.M.

Anyanwu, Ogechi E.

Ezekwem, Ogechukwu

Ojeleye, Olukunle

Njoku, Raphael Chijioke

Falola, Toyin

Adebanwi, Wale

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Scholarly Trends, Issues, and Themes: Introduction PART I ON THE HISTORY OF THE NIGERIA-BIAFRA WAR - Toyin Falola
Scholarly Trends, Issues, and Themes: Introduction PART I ON THE HISTORY OF THE NIGERIA-BIAFRA WAR - Ogechukwu Ezekwem
Background to the Nigerian Civil War - G.N. Uzoigwe
Connecting Theory with Reality: Understanding the Causes of the Nigeria-Biafra War - Ogechi E. Anyanwu
The Ahiara Declaration and the Fate of Biafra in a Postcolonial/Bi-Polar World Order - Raphael Chijioke Njoku
The Ahiara Declaration: Polemics and Politics PART II CRITICAL DEBATES ON THE NIGERIAN CRISIS - Austine Okwu
Beyond the Blame-Game: Theorizing the Nigeria-Biafra War - Bukola Oyeniyi
Confronting the Challenges of Nationhood in Pre-Biafra Texts: Newspaper Narratives on the Eve of War - Wale Adebanwi
Literary Separatism: Ethnic Balkanization in Nigeria-Biafra War Literature - Akachi Odoemene
Local Writers and Commitments to Ethnic Sentiments Part III THE WAR IN FICTION, MEMOIR & IMAGINATION - Olukunle Ojeleye
Memoirs and the Question of Objectivity: Revisiting Alexander Madiebos' The Nigerian Revolution & the Biafran War & Robert Colliss's Nigeria in Conflict - Christian Chukwuma Opata
"War is War": Recreating the Dreams and Nightmares of the Nigeria-Biafra War through the Eyes of Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy - Cyril I. Obi
First, There Was a Country, Then There Wasn't: Reflections on Achebe's There was a Country - Biodun Jeyifo
Ethnic Minorities and the Biafran National Imaginary in Chukwuemeka Ike's Sunset at Dawnand Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun - Meredith Coffey
Biafra in the Irish Imagination: War and Famine in Banville's An End to Flight and Forristal's Black Man's Country - Fiona Bateman
Magical Realism or Science Fiction: The Nigerian Civil War and Ali Mazrui's The Trial of Christopher Okigbo - Alabi Adetayo
Biafra, an Impractical Mission? Revisiting S.O. Mezu's Behind the Rising Sun and I.N.C. Aniebo's The Anonymity of Sacrifice
Neo-Colonialism, Biafra and the Causes of War as Imagined in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra PART IV LOCATING GENDER IN NIGERIA-BIAFRA WAR LITERATURE - Françoise Ugochukwu
No, This is Not Redemption: The Biafra War Legacy in Chris Abani's Graceland PART IV LOCATING GENDER IN NIGERIA-BIAFRA WAR LITERATURE - Hugh Hodges
Gender and the Construction of the Nigeria-Biafra War Scholarship - Egodi Uchendu
What is the Country? Reimagining National Space in Women's Writing on the Nigeria-Biafra War - Jane Bryce
Female Participation in War and the Implication of Nationalism: The Postcolonial Disconnection in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra - Ofure O.M. Aito
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Über Autor(innen)

Falola Toyin:
TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.Njoku Raphael Chijioke:
RAPHAEL CHIJIOKE NJOKU is professor of history at Idaho State University.Falola Toyin:
TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.Adebanwi Wale:
Wale Adebanwi is Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (2016) and editor of The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa (2017).