The forger's tale [[electronic resource] ] : the search for Odeziaku / / Stephanie Newell

• Autore: Newell Stephanie <1968->
• Pubblicazione: Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Disciplina: 828/.91209
• Soggetto topico: Authors, English - 20th century; Gay authors - Great Britain; Gay men - Great Britain - Identity; Gay men - Africa - Identity; Forgers - Great Britain
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Colonies Africa History 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-226) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The forger's tale
• ISBN: 0-8214-4230-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782060703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New African histories series.