Nigeria and the Poetry of Travails:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

منو

" Nigeria and the Poetry of Travails: "
Isidore Diala

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1076339
Doc. No	:	LA119968
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18757421-033001036‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Isidore Diala
Title & Author	:	Nigeria and the Poetry of Travails: [Article] : The Niger Delta in the Poetry of Uche Umez\ Isidore Diala
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Matatu
Date	:	2006
Volume/ Issue Number	:	33/1
Page No	:	317–325
Abstract	:	Especially since the execution of the writer and Ogoni activist, Ken Saro–Wiwa, international attention has been drawn to the plight of the Niger Delta. Oil-rich but cynically plundered and exploited, the Niger Delta has become symbolic of the Nigerian nation itself, fabulously endowed yet, paradoxically, virtually a beggar nation. This accounts in part for the increasing fascination of a growing number of Nigerian poets, Deltans and non-Deltans alike, with the representative plight of the Niger Delta. In , the first published volume of the emergent Nigerian writer Uche Peter Umez, Nigeria's characteristic social ills are etched in memorable lines. But Umez's special focus is on the Niger Delta. Given his own position as a non-Deltan from a part of Igboland that has been the target of punitive cartography, this concern foregrounds the varied dimensions of Nigeria's oil politics.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	Comparative Studies World Literature
Descriptor	:	Criticism Theory
Descriptor	:	Cultural History
Descriptor	:	Literature Culture
Descriptor	:	Literature and Cultural Studies
Descriptor	:	Postcolonial Literature Culture
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18757421-033001036‬