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Autore |
Newell Stephanie <1968-> |
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Titolo |
The forger's tale : the search for Odeziaku / / Stephanie Newell |
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Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2006 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (245 p.) |
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Collana |
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New African histories series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Authors, English - 20th century |
Gay authors - Great Britain |
Gay men - Great Britain - Identity |
Gay men - Africa - Identity |
Forgers - Great Britain |
Great Britain Colonies Africa History 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-226) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Forging ahead: the secret gentleman of Ardwick Green -- The palm oil trader's view -- Fragments of Oscar Wilde in colonial Nigeria -- "Uranian" love in West Africa -- The politics of naming : Igbo perspectives on Stuart-Young -- The strange toleration of Stuart-Young in the African-owned press of Nigeria -- A class apart : "Johnny Jones" of Back Kay Street -- The production of a poet : Stuart-Young's verse and its readers. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on the streets of Onitsha, in Eastern Nigeria. How was it possible for an unconventional, boy-loving Englishman to gain a social status among the local populace enjoyed by few other Europeans in colonial West Africa? In The Forger's Tale: The Search for Odeziaku Stephanie Newell charts the story of the English novelist and poet John Moray Stuart-Young (1881-1939) as he traveled from the slums of Manchester to West Africa in order to escape the homo |
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