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Before I am hanged : Ken Saro-Wiwa--literature, politics, and dissent
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- Creator
- edited by Onookome Okome
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- xxxii, 224 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780865437449, 0865437440, 9780865437456, 0865437459
- OCLC
- ocm40979953
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction. -- The testament of a "penful" prisoner: Ken Saro-Wiwa's literary dialogue with the prison / Obododimma Oha. -- The socio-political dimensions of Ken Saro-Wiwa's activism / Solomon Odiri Ejeke. -- Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy and The logic of minority discourse / Harry Garuba. -- Ken Saro-Wiwa and the trajectory of minority predicament in Nigeria / Oshita O. Oshita. -- Social conscience, aesthetic purpose and the dissenting temper in The farcical plays of Ken Saro-Wiwa / Imo Ben Eshiet. -- The gift of voice: Ken Saro-Wiwa's Prisoners of Jebs as a political discourse / Amen Ahunuwangho. --Aspect of language in Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy: a novel in rotten english / David Eka. -- A metaphor of the Nigerian situation: a socio-political reading of Ken Saro-Wiwa's Prisoners of Jebs / Francis Unimna Angrey. -- On a darkling plain: the darksome lyric of an outsider / Azubike Iieoje. -- The female narrative and Ken Saro-Wiwa's discourse on change in A forest of flowers / Grace Eche Okereke. -- Ethnic minorities and the Nigerian state: the Ogoni struggle after Ken Saro-Wiwa / Felix Akpan. -- Direct involvement and personal emotionalism: the war poetry of Ken Saro-Wiwa / Innocent C.K. Eyinnaya. -- Ken Saro-Wiwa: poetic craft, prophetic calling / Titi Adepitan. -- The fictionalist as a journalist: literary reportage in Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy and A forest of flowers / Diri I. Telilanyo. -- The fear of colonization: reading Ken Saro-Wiwa's political thoughts in Nigeria's political public / Onookome Okome