Olaudah Equiano and the Igbo world : history, society and Atlantic diaspora connections / edited by Chima J. Korieh

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Object Details

Author
Korieh, Chima J (Chima Jacob) 1962-
Subject
Equiano, Olaudah 1745-1797
Equiano, Olaudah b. 1745 Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano
Contents
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
2009
C2009
Type
Biography
Physical description
xiv, 407 p. : ill ; 23 cm
Place
Great Britain
America
Biafra, Bight of, Region
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
Igbo (African people)
Slaves
Ethnic identity
History
Slave trade--History
African diaspora
Record ID
siris_sil_929388
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0