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Based on a study of V. S. Naipaul's postcolonial writings, this book explores the process of postcolonial subjects' special route of identification. This enables the readers to see how in our increasingly diverse and fragmented post-modern world, identity is a vibrant, complex, and highly controversial concept. The old notion of identity as a prescribed and self-sufficient entity is now replaced by identity as a plural, floating and becoming process. Min Zhou shows how postcolonial literature, among other artistic forms, is one of the most representative reflections of this floating identity.
Exiles in literature. --- Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- American Studies. --- Cultural Studies. --- General Literature Studies. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Postcolonial Literature. --- Postcolonialism. --- V. S. Naipaul. --- Identität --- Postkoloniale Literatur --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- Naipaul, V. S. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Identity --- Philosophy --- Comparison (Philosophy) --- Resemblance (Philosophy) --- Nachkoloniale Literatur --- Entkolonialisierung --- Kolonialliteratur --- Motiv --- Cultural Identity; Postcolonial Literature; V. S. Naipaul; Literary Studies; Literature; Postcolonialism; American Studies; General Literature Studies; Cultural Studies
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This 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.
Historians --- Germany --- History --- Philosophy. --- History. --- Nigerian literature (English) --- Authors, Nigerian --- History and criticism. --- Education. --- Achebe, Chinua --- Friends and associates. --- Nigerian authors --- English literature --- Nigerian literature --- Achebe, Albert Chinua --- Achebe, Chinualumogu Albert --- Ats'ebeh, Ts'inuʼa --- Acībī, Cinūā --- Achebe, Albert Chinualumogu --- אצ׳בה, צ׳ינוא --- أتشينى، شينوا --- "first-generation" writers. --- Achebe and Friends at Umuahia: The Making of a Literary Elite. --- African literature. --- Chike Momah. --- Chinua Achebe. --- Christopher Okigbo. --- Chukwuemeka Ike. --- Colonial education. --- Elechi Amadi. --- Gabriel Okara. --- Government College Umuahia. --- Government College, Umuahia. --- I.C. Aniebo. --- Ken Saro-Wiwa. --- Literary culture. --- Literary elite. --- Nigeria. --- Postcolonial literature. --- Terri Ochiagha. --- colonial education. --- cultural perspectives. --- literary awakening. --- post-colonial period. --- postcolonial writers.
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