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Olaudah Equiano and the Igbo world : history, society and Atlantic diaspora connections
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- Creator
- edited by Chima J. Korieh
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 407 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 1592216641, 9781592216642, 159221665X, 9781592216659
- OCLC
- ocn244660677
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-391) and index.
- Introduction: Mapping the Igbo-Atlantic connection / Chima J. Korieh -- (Re)Imagining community : Olaudah Equiano and the (re)construction of Igbo (African) identity / Maureen N. Eke -- The Igbo roots of Olaudah Equiano / Catherine Obianuju Acholonu -- Igbo sense of place and identity in Olaudah Equiano's The interesting narrative / Dorothy Chinwe Ukaegbu -- Status in eighteenth-century Igboland : perspectives from Olaudah Equiano's The interesting narrative / Dorothy Chinwe Ukaegbu -- Olaudah Equiano and the question of African identity / Ogbo Ugwuanyi -- Between literature, facts, and fiction : perspectives on Olaudah Equiano's The interesting narrative / Elizabeth Odachi Onogwu -- Neoliberal tradition in pre-colonial Igbo society / Raphael Chijioke Njoku -- Gathering figs from thistles : hinterland slave trade and the christianization of Igboland, 1900-1950 / Ogbu U. Kalu -- Gender and class transormation resulting from the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism / J. Akuma-Kalu Njoku -- Episodes of Igbo resistance to European imperialism / Felix K. Ekechi -- Revolution and reaction in eastern Nigeria, 1900-1929 : the background to the women's riot of 1929 / Adiele Afigbo -- Igbo women from 1929-1960 / John N. Oriji -- Igbo ethnicity and identity in the Atlantic diaspora / Chime J. Korieh -- Igbo women in the early modern Atlantic world : the burden of beauty / Douglas B. Chambers -- African cultural values : significance of Igbo oral forms in Caribbean poetry / Hannah N. Eby Chukwu -- African origins of Igbo slave resistance in the Americas / Daniel Kloza -- Editing race : the mediation of Equiano's Interesting narrative and the correlating Black aesthetic / Ron Midland
Subjects
- Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797.
- Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797. Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano.
- Igbo (African people) -- Biography.
- Enslaved persons -- Great Britain -- Biography.
- Enslaved persons -- America -- Biography.
- Igbo (African people) -- Ethnic identity.
- Igbo (African people) -- History.
- Slave trade -- Biafra, Bight of, Region -- History.
- Slave trade -- America -- History.
- African diaspora.