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Letters from Khartoum. D.R. Ewen

Teaching English Literature, Sudan, 1951-1965

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av Russell McDougall

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-06-17
Mått155 x 235 x 35 mm
Vikt897 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePostcolonial Lives
Antal sidor450
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004461093

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AcknowledgementsA Note on the TextHistorical NomenclatureList of FiguresIntroduction1951 – Native Quarter1952 – Crossing the Bar1953 – Serpent’s Tooth1954 – Assassins at the Tea Party1955 – Mutiny1956 – Crisis1957 – Birds over the Bottomless Lake1958 – An End to Democracy1959 – Bogged on the Runway1960 – The Year of Africa1961 – Cold War1962 – Backwater Paradise1963 – The Widening Gyre1964 – Revolution1965 – LeavingAfterwordA Who’s Who of Ewen’s SudanWorks CitedIndex

McDougall’s book defies easy generic classification; it draws upon a rich variety of primary and secondary sources: photographs and postcards; government and diplomatic papers; journalism, university archives, and scholarly literature; and, most importantly, Ewen’s own writings, which include lecture notes, diaries, poetry, and his voluminous correspondence – notably to his mother, Agnes. […] Letters from Khartoum: D.R Ewen is a fascinating and rewarding read. The book makes an original and important con tribution to postcolonial studies, and it is to be hoped that subsequent volumes in the series Postcolonial Lives, of which Letters from Khartoum, D.R Ewen is the inaugural volume, will further develop this refreshingly different perspective on the field.- Jamie S. Scott, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, September 2024.