Letters from Khartoum. D.R. Ewen : Teaching English Literature, Sudan, 1951-1965 (Postcolonial Lives)

McDougall, Russell

Brill（2021/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 450 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004461093
• DDC分類 962.403

Full Description

Letters from Khartoum is a partial biography of Scottish educator, D.R. Ewen, who taught English Literature at the University of Khartoum from the time of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium through to Independence and the October 1964 Revolution. The administrative history of the then unified nation - North (Middle Eastern) and South (African) - makes the Sudan a unique setting to explore the workings of colonial education. The purpose of teaching English literature there was to remake the Muslim Sudanese of the North as the proxy agents of British culture who would administrate the first independent nation in Africa. But Ewen also was remade in the process - by his relationships with his students and colleagues, and by his own teaching innovations.

Contents

Acknowledgements

A Note on the Text

Historical Nomenclature

List of Figures

 Introduction

 1951 - Native Quarter

 1952 - Crossing the Bar

 1953 - Serpent's Tooth

 1954 - Assassins at the Tea Party

 1955 - Mutiny

 1956 - Crisis

 1957 - Birds over the Bottomless Lake

 1958 - An End to Democracy

 1959 - Bogged on the Runway

 1960 - The Year of Africa

 1961 - Cold War

 1962 - Backwater Paradise

 1963 - The Widening Gyre

 1964 - Revolution

 1965 - Leaving

 Afterword

 A Who's Who of Ewen's Sudan

 Works Cited

 Index