John Figueroa

 

[1]John Joseph Maria Figueroa (4 August 1920 - 5 March 1999) bụ onye na-ede uri na onye nkuzi Ndị Jamaica. Ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị mkpa na mmepe nke akwụkwọ Anglophone Caribbean ma dị ka onye na-ede uri ma onye na-akọ akụkọ. O nyere aka na mmepe nke Mahadum College of the West Indies dị ka onye ọrụ mbụ, ma nwee ọrụ n'otu oge ahụ dị ka onye mgbasa ozi, na-arụ ọrụ maka ụlọ ọrụ mgbasa ozi dị iche iche gụnyere BBC. [2] kụzikwaara na Jamaica, Britain, United States, Nigeria na Puerto Rico.

Akụkọ ndụ

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[3] mụrụ Figueroa na Jamaica, ọ bụ nwa mbụ n'ime ụmụ 13 (10 n'ime ha dị ndụ mgbe ha bụ nwa ọhụrụ) nke Blanche Maria Palomino na Rupert Aston FigueroA. Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na St George's College, wee nweta agụmakwụkwọ iji gaa Holy Cross College, Massachusetts, gụsịrị akwụkwọ na 1942. [4] kụziri na St George's College na Wolmer's School na Jamaica . [1] [2] Mountain Peak, nchịkọta uri mbụ ya, pụtara na 1944. N'afọ 1946, ọ gara na British Council fellowship na Mahadum nke London iji mụọ maka diplọma nkuzi na nzere masta na agụmakwụkwọ. [4] mechara kụzie n'ụlọ akwụkwọ ụfọdụ dị na London, ma nọrọ afọ isii dị ka onye nkuzi Bekee na nkà ihe ọmụma na Institute of Education . [1] [4] nyekwara aka na nkatọ, akụkọ na uri na mmemme redio Caribbean Voices nke BBC nke Henry Swanzy mepụtara.

Na Jamaica, Figueroa ghọrọ onye West Indian mbụ a họpụtara ka ọ bụrụ oche na Mahadum College of the West Indies, na onye isi mbụ nke Faculty of Education. N'agbata afọ 1964 na 1966 ọ bụ prọfesọ nleta na Mahadum Rhode Island na Mahadum Indiana. Na mbido afọ 1970 ọ ghọrọ Prọfesọ nke Humanities na-eduzi Ngalaba Mmụta nke Centro Caribeno de Estudios Postgraduados, Puerto Rico. Site na 1976 ruo 1980 ọ bụ Prọfesọ nke Mmụta na Mahadum Jos na Naịjirịa. [3]

N'afọ ndị 1980 ọ kwagara UK, ebe ọ rụrụ ọrụ na Mahadum Open, ọ bụ Fellow na Centre for Caribbean Studies, Mahadum Warwick, na onye ndụmọdụ na agụmakwụkwọ ọdịbendị dị iche iche na Manchester. Ọ dezigharịrị akwụkwọ edemede abụọ Caribbean Voices (mpịakọta 1: Dreams and Visions na mpịakọta 2: The Blue Horizons, 1966 na 1970 n'otu n'otu), nchịkọta zuru oke nke uri West Indian. Ọ bụkwa onye nchịkọta akụkọ mbụ nke Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series.

Ọ rụkwara ọrụ dị mkpa na mmepe nke ọmụmụ Caribbean dị ka onye guzobere Caribbean Studies Association na Society for Caribbean Studies.

[2] [5] "na-egosipụta mmalite ya dị ka onye Jamaica nke [Hispanic] agbụrụ na onye Katọlik nke, ọ bụ ezie na ọ na-etinye aka na Caribbean, na-echegbu onwe ya iji chekwaa [ọdịiche nke] ihe nketa ya n'enweghị mgbaghara. Ọ siri ọnwụ na ịgbà abụghị naanị ngwá egwu Caribbean (enweghị obi abụọ ọ bụ igwu ala na Kamau Brathwaite) ma kwado mmekọrịta Derek Walcott na omenala edemede oge ochie na Europe. [6] N'ụzọ zuru oke, otu n'asụsụ Salypso, ọ bụ n'ụzọ ziri ezi, n'asụsụ Figueroa bụ n'ezie, ọ bụ na-akọwapụta ya bụ n'asụsụ Saley bụ n'okwu Skey nwere mmetụta zuru oke na-akọ.

Ebe ndebe ihe ochie

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Nwa [3] nwanyị nyere akwụkwọ Figueroa na Mahadum nke West Indies na Mona ma debe ya na nchịkọta abụọ: otu na UWI Archive, nke ọzọ na West Indies Collection na Ọbá Akwụkwọ ahụ.

Ọrụ

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  • Blue Mountain Peak: Poetry & Prose (nke e bipụtara na nzuzo, Jamaica, 1944).
  • Love Leaps Here (nke e bipụtara na nzuzo, UK, 1962).
  • Ileghara Mmetụta anya (Three Continents Press, Washington, 1976)
  • The Chase: A Collection of Poems 1941-1989 (Peepal Tree Press, 1991)
  • Dị ka onye nchịkọta akụkọ: Caribbean Voices, vol. 1: Dreams and Visions (1966) na vol. 2, The Blue Horizons.

Ịgụ ihe ọzọ

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  • Daryl Cumber Dance (ed.), Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986, peeji nke 178-84. 

Hụkwa

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  • Abụ uri Caribbean
  • Akwụkwọ Caribbean

Ihe odide

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  1. ↑ Pamela Beshoff, "Obituary: John Figueroa", The Independent, 11 March 1999.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Paola Marchionni (2002). "Figueroa, John", in Alison Donnell: Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge, 113–14. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7. Paola Marchionni (2002). "Figueroa, John". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. pp. 113–14. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Esther Figueroa, "You Are Not Forgotten – The Literary Heritage of John Figueroa", Caribbean Literary Heritage, 7 June 2019.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Philip Nanton, "Wise words from the Caribbean" (John Figueroa obituary), The Guardian, 16 March 1999.
  5. ↑ Andrew Salkey, World Literature Today.
  6. ↑ Peepal Tree Press website.

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