Anne McCrary Sullivan

Learning Calabar (eBook, PDF)

Notes from a Poet's Year in Nigeria

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book represents a close engagement with vulnerable populations in the city of Calabar in southeastern Nigeria. Following the traditions of Clifford Geertz' thick description, Elliot Eisner's arts-based research, and Laurel Richardson's poetic inquiry, Learning Calabar weaves prose and poetry in a hybrid form that evokes the everyday lives of gate keepers, grounds keepers, taxi drivers, cooks, and children with whom the author interacted during a Fulbright year. From the stance of a participant-observer, it traces her learning of history and the evolution of her understanding as she lived, along with her neighbors, in the chaos of governmental failure, extended power outages, and dysfunctional systems, aware that her privilege offered protections not afforded to her neighbors. This work opens doors to a long sweep of Nigerian history, while keeping a laser eye on people living now in the aftermath of that history, which is both culturally rich and politically torn. Written from the viewpoint of a learner, this book will be of interest to learners of West African history, cultural anthropology, ethnography, women's studies, cross cultural studies, and poetic inquiry. Its vibrant voice and poetic renderings also make it accessible and engaging for general audiences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781433193811
• Artikelnr.: 65840418

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

"With keen ethnographic observations, Sullivan teaches us about the human cost of political machinations through the use of poetry as witness and aesthetic response. These poems do more than instruct, though. You will want to spend some time with this gorgeous collection getting to know the Nigerians in Calabar through Sullivan's strong poetic voice." -Sandra L. Faulkner, Poetic Inquiry as Social Justice and Political Response and Poetic Inquiry: Craft, Method and Practice