TY - BOOK AU - Bastian,Misty L. AU - Dunton,Chris AU - Eke,Maureen N. AU - Gibbs,James AU - LeBlanc,John AU - Lock,Charles AU - McLaren,Joseph AU - McLuckie,Craig W. AU - McPhail,Aubrey AU - Neame,Laura AU - Nixon,Rob AU - Ojaide,Tanure AU - Tyner,Ross TI - Ken Saro-Wiwa: Writer and Political Activist SN - 9781685854461 PY - 2022///] CY - Boulder : PB - Lynne Rienner Publishers, KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Part 1. The Context --; 1. Ken Saro-Wiwa, or “The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger” --; 2. A Political Assessment: Genocide in Nigeria: The Ogoni Tragedy --; Part 2. The Literary Experiments --; 3. Literary Memoirs and Diaries: Soyinka, Amadi, and Saro-Wiwa --; 4. The Poetry: Songs in a Time of War --; 5. The Short Fiction: A Forest of Flowers and Adaku and Other Stories --; 6. The Novel: Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English --; 7. Pipe Dreams: Ken Saro-Wiwa, Environmental Justice, and Microminority Rights --; 8. “Buried Beneath Six Feet of Crude Oil”: State-Sponsored Death and the Absent Body of Ken Saro-Wiwa --; 9. Saro-Wiwa the Publisher --; Part 4. Popular Media --; 10. The Children’s Series --; 11. Dream of Sologa, Eneka, and The Supreme Commander: The Theater of Ken Saro-Wiwa --; Part 5. Epilogue --; 12. “From This Hurt to the Unquestioning World”: Seven Poems from Delta Blues --; Appendixes --; Appendix 1: Chronology of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Life --; Appendix 2: Chronology of the Nigerian Civil War --; Appendix 3: An Annotated Bibliography --; The Contributors --; Index --; About the Book; restricted access N2 - An interdisciplinary assessment of Saro-Wiwa’s exceptional life and work, exploring both his literary output and his broad-ranging public roles UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685854461 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781685854461 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781685854461/original ER -