Learning Calabar; Notes from a Poet's Year in Nigeria

ISBN-13: 9781433193804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 116 str.

Anne McCrary Sullivan

Opis

Written from a participant observer stance, Learning Calabar weaves prose and poetry in a hybrid form and evokes the richness and challenges of everyday lives of people of Calabar, Nigeria.

Recenzje

"Learning Calabar is a wonderful tribute to the people and place of Calabar, a major port for the trans-Atlantic slave trade from the 1600s to 1840, and the first capital of Nigeria, until 1906. In poetry and prose, with an open mind and an attitude of solidarity, Sullivan bears witness to the struggles and triumphs of her contemporary Calabar neighbors. The long poem 'Mary Okoi's Garden' creates a striking portrait of working class 'women's power' in a West African context." -Ivor Miller, Calabar on the Cross River: Historical and Cultural Studies and Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba

Spis treści

My Finger Inquires of the Map-Where? - Learning Calabar I - The Calabar Acrostics - Learning Calabar II - The Ekorinim Suite - A Place Called Biafra - Everything Depends Upon - The Children of Ekorinim - Mary Okoi's Garden - Notes - Acknowledgments - Further Reading - Useful Websites - Catalog of the Acrostics - Index - Postscript.

O autorze

Anne McCrary Sullivan was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Calabar in Nigeria. She has an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College, a PhD in English education from the University of Florida, and is Professor Emerita of Interdisciplinary Studies at National Louis University.