Olaudah Equiano and the Igbo world
By: edited by Chima J. Korieh.
Contributors: Korieh, Chima J. 1962-
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
Subjects: Equiano, Olaudah, -- b. 1745; Equiano, Olaudah, -- b. 1745; Igbo (African people) -- Biography; Slaves -- Great Britain -- Biography; Slaves -- America -- Biography; Igbo (African people) -- Ethnic identity; Igbo (African people) -- History; Slave trade -- Biafra, Bight of, Region -- History; Slave trade -- America -- History; African diaspora
Genres: Biography; Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Mapping the Igbo-Atlantic connection / Chima J. Korieh; title: (Re)Imagining community : Olaudah Equiano and the (re)construction of Igbo (African) identity / Maureen N. Eke; title: The Igbo roots of Olaudah Equiano / Catherine Obianuju Acholonu; title: Igbo sense of place and identity in Olaudah Equiano's The interesting narrative / Dorothy Chinwe Ukaegbu; title: Status in eighteenth-century Igboland : perspectives from Olaudah Equiano's The interesting narrative / Dorothy Chinwe Ukaegbu; title: Olaudah Equiano and the question of African identity / Ogbo Ugwuanyi; title: Between literature, facts, and fiction : perspectives on Olaudah Equiano's The interesting narrative / Elizabeth Odachi Onogwu; title: Neoliberal tradition in pre-colonial Igbo society / Raphael Chijioke Njoku; title: Gathering figs from thistles : hinterland slave trade and the christianization of Igboland, 1900-1950 / Ogbu U. Kalu; title: The Atlantic slave trade, colonialism, gender, and class transformations in the bight of Biafra hinterland / J. Akuma-Kalu Njoku; title: Episodes of Igbo resistance to European imperialism / Felix K. Ekechi; title: Revolution and reaction in eastern Nigeria, 1900-1929 : the background to the women's riot of 1929 / Adiele Afigbo; title: Igbo women in colonial Nigeria, 1929-1960 / John N. Oriji; title: Igbo ethnicity and identity in the Atlantic diaspora / Chime J. Korieh; title: Igbo women in the early modern Atlantic world : the burden of beauty / Douglas B. Chambers; title: African cultural values : significance of Igbo oral forms in Caribbean poetry / Hannah N. Eby Chukwu; title: African origins of Igbo slave resistance in the Americas / Daniel Kloza; title: Editing race : the mediation of Equiano's Interesting narrative and the correlating Black aesthetic / Ron Midland.