Syl Cheney-Coker

Syl Cheney-Coker
mmádu
ụdịekerenwoke Dezie
mba o sịSierra Leone Dezie
aha enyereSyl Dezie
ụbọchị ọmụmụ ya1945 Dezie
Ebe ọmụmụFreetown Dezie
asụsụ ọ na-asụ, na-ede ma ọ bụ were na-ebinye akaBekee Dezie
ọrụ ọ na-arụodee akwụkwọ, odee uri, onye ntaakụkọ, literary scholar Dezie
onye were ọrụUniversity of Iowa Dezie
ebe agụmakwụkwọUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Oregon Dezie
Ọrụ ama amaThe last harmattan of Alusine Dunbar Dezie

Syl Cheney-Coker (amụrụ na 28 June 1945) [1] bụ onye na-ede uri, onye na-edekọ akwụkwọ akụkọ, na onye nta akụkọ si Freetown, Sierra Leone. Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na United States, o nwere echiche zuru ụwa ọnụ nke akụkọ ihe mere eme, ma webata ụdị na usoro site na akwụkwọ French na Latin America na Sierra Leone. Ọ nọrọ ọtụtụ oge ndụ ya n'ebe a chụgara ya n'ala nna ya, ma dee ọtụtụ ihe (n'abụ uri, akụkọ ifo, na akụkọ na-abụghị akụkọ ifo) banyere ọnọdụ nke ịkwaga na echiche nke Africa site na mba ọzọ.

Syl Cheney-Coker (amụrụ na 28 June 1945) [2] bụ onye na-ede uri, onye na-edekọ akwụkwọ akụkọ, na onye nta akụkọ si Freetown, Sierra Leone. Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na United States, o nwere echiche zuru ụwa ọnụ nke akụkọ ihe mere eme, ma webata ụdị na usoro site na akwụkwọ French na Latin America na Sierra Leone. Ọ nọrọ ọtụtụ oge ndụ ya n'ebe a chụgara ya n'ala nna ya, ma dee ọtụtụ ihe (n'abụ uri, akụkọ ifo, na akụkọ na-abụghị akụkọ ifo) banyere ọnọdụ nke ịkwaga na echiche nke Africa site na mba ọzọ.

Mbido ndụ na agụmakwụkwọ

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A mụrụ Cheney-Coker dị ka onye Creole na Freetown, Sierra Leone, aha ya bụ Syl Cheney Coker, ma gbanwee aha ya ka ọ bụrụ nke a na-asụ ugbu a na 1970. [3] Ọ gara United States na 1966, ebe ọ gara Mahadum California, Los Angeles, Mahadum Oregon, na Mahadum Wisconsin-Madison. Mgbe [4] gụsịrị akwụkwọ, ọ laghachiri Sierra Leone n'oge na-adịghị anya, mana ọ nabatara ọkwa na Mahadum nke Philippines na 1975; o mechara lụọ nwanyị Filipino. [1] Ọ kwagara Naịjirịa na 1977 iji kụzie na Mahadum Maiduguri, wee laghachi na United States na 1988 ka ọ bụrụ onye edemede na Mahadim Iowa.

Abụ uri

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Abụ uri Cheney-Coker jupụtara na nchegbu nke ọnọdụ ya na-ejighị n'aka, na-emeso ma ịgba ọsọ ndụ (ọ nọrọla ihe ka ukwuu n'oge ndụ ya n'èzí mba ya) yana nsogbu nke ibi ndụ dị ka onye nwere ọgụgụ isi na Sierra Leone. N'otu oge ahụ, ọ na-echegbu onwe ya mgbe niile banyere otu esi agụ ya; uri ya dị oke egwu ma na-anụ ọkụ n'obi, kamakwa ọ bụ agụmakwụkwọ na ihe na-adọrọ mmasị, nke nwere ike ịdọpụ uche onye na-agụ ya na ọrụ echiche Cheney-Coker. [5] na-akpọ ya otu n'ime ndị na-ede uri n'ebe ọdịda anyanwụ Afrịka. N'akwụkwọ ya "On Being a Poet in Sierra Leone" (site na The Graveyard Also Has Teeth, 1980) o dere, sị:

na mahadum ndị prọfesọ na-ekwu maka onye na-ede uri Syl Cheney-Coker na-akatọ ụmụ akwụkwọ ka m gụrụ m na mba nkwanye ùgwù Bekee m achọghị nke ahụ!



achọghị ka a debe ya n'akwụkwọ naanị ya [6]

Harmattan Ikpeazụ nke Alusine Dunbar

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GMgbe ọ chịkọtara uri atọ, niile nabatara nke ọma na ọdịda anyanwụ, Cheney-Coker dere akwụkwọ akụkọ, The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar, nke e bipụtara na 1990. Akwụkwọ akụkọ ahụ, nke nwere oké ọchịchọ na oke, na-akọwa akụkọ ihe mere eme niile nke mba efu, Malagueta, nke nwere mgbọrọgwụ na ahia ohu Atlantic (dị ka Sierra Leone ma ọ bụ Liberia, ha abụọ bụ ndị bụbu ndị ohu). Ebumnuche akwụkwọ akụkọ ahụ [7] ka ọ bụrụ nkwụsịtụ na ọdịnala nke akwụkwọ akụkọ Afrịka na ndị edemede ya, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o na Chinua Achebe. Iji nweta nnwere onwe a, ọ na-adabere na akụkọ ihe mere eme pụrụ iche nke mba ndị na-esote ịgba ohu n'ebe ugwu ọdịda anyanwụ Afrịka na akwụkwọ ndị si n'èzí kọntinent ahụ. Mmasị Che[8]-Coker nwere n'ebe Gabriel García Márquez nọ, karịsịa, emeela ka ụfọdụ ndị nkatọ were akwụkwọ akụkọ ahụ dị ka nke dị n'ụdị nke Ime Anwansi - onye isi aha ahụ gosipụtara ike dị omimi yiri nke ụfọdụ ndị García Márquez - ọ bụ ezie na ndị ọzọ ajụla echiche ahụ. [9] Last Harmattan nke Alusine Dunbar meriri Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa Region) na 1991.[1]

Ọrụ odeakụkọ na nchụpụ

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Na mbido afọ 1990, Cheney-Coker laghachiri Freetown ka ọ bụrụ onye nchịkọta akụkọ nke akwụkwọ akụkọ na-aga n'ihu, Vanguard. [10] nnupụisi ndị agha nke afọ 1997 gasịrị, a lekwasịrị Cheney-Coker anya dị ka onye na-emegide ọchịchị, ọ fọrọ nke nta ka ọ gbanahụ ndụ ya. N'akụkụ ụfọdụ site na mgbalị nke Wole Soyinka, onye na-ede uri Naijiria na-akụzi na Mahadum Nevada, Las Vegas, a kpọrọ Cheney-Coker ka ọ bụrụ onye edemede mbụ na mmemme City of Asylum na Las Vegas, Nevada. [11] kpebiri ịlaghachi na Sierra Leone kwụsiri ike na 2003, na-ekwu, "Mgbe oge ụfọdụ gasịrị, ịgba ọsọ ndụ abụghị ihe ziri ezi ma ọ bụ ihe a na-anabata".

Ihe nkiri

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[12]'afọ 2016, Cheney-Coker, ya na enyi ya ogologo oge, onye Naijiria na-ede uri Niyi Osundare, bụ isiokwu nke ihe ngosi akpọrọ The Poets, nke onye nduzi Chivas DeVinck. Ihe nkiri ahụ na-eso Cheney-Coker na Osundare na njem n'okporo ụzọ site na Sierra Leone na Naịjirịa ka ha na-ekwurịta ọbụbụenyi ha na otu ahụmahụ ndụ ha si kpụzie nka ha.

Akwụkwọ

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  • Ụzọ e si aga Jamaica. 1969.
  • Concerto for an Exile: Abụ. London: Heinemann, 1973.
  • Ili ahụ nwekwara ezé. London: Heinemann, 1980.
  • The Blood in the Desert's Eyes: Poems. London: Heinemann, 1990.
  • The Last Harmattan nke Alusine Dunbar. London: Heinemann, 1990.  

Ihe odide

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Syl Cheney-Coker (amụrụ na 28 June 1945) [13] bụ onye na-ede uri, onye na-edekọ akwụkwọ akụkọ, na onye nta akụkọ si Freetown, Sierra Leone. Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na United States, o nwere echiche zuru ụwa ọnụ nke akụkọ ihe mere eme, ma webata ụdị na usoro site na akwụkwọ French na Latin America na Sierra Leone. Ọ nọrọ ọtụtụ oge ndụ ya n'ebe a chụgara ya n'ala nna ya, ma dee ọtụtụ ihe (n'abụ uri, akụkọ ifo, na akụkọ na-abụghị akụkọ ifo) banyere ọnọdụ nke ịkwaga na echiche nke Africa site na mba ọzọ.

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 R. Victoria Arana, "Cheney-Coker, Syl", in Encyclopedia of World Poetry, Infobase Learning, 2015.
  2. ↑ R. Victoria Arana, "Cheney-Coker, Syl", in Encyclopedia of World Poetry, Infobase Learning, 2015.
  3. ↑ Clarke, George Elliot, Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), 128.
  4. ↑ Hallowell, Gbanabom, "The Claustrophobia of Exile: African Poets Writing in the 'Wasteland'" (Sea Breeze: Journal of Contemporary Liberian Writings Vol. 3, No. 1 [2006]).
  5. ↑ Riemenschneider, Dieter, African Literatures in the Eighties (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993), 82.
  6. ↑ Moore, Gerald, and Ulli Beier, The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, 4th edition (London: Penguin, 1998), 339.
  7. ↑ Bertinetti, Paolo, "Reality in Magic in Syl Cheney-Coker's The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar," in Linguanti, Elsa et al., ed., Coterminous Worlds: Magical Realism and Contemporary Post-colonial Literature in English (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999), 199.
  8. ↑ Olatubosun Ogunsanwo, for example, challenges that interpretation in his review of Brenda Cooper's Magical Realism in West African Fiction: Seeing with a Third Eye (Research in African Literatures Vol. 31 No. 2 [2000], 226–228). Bertinetti quotes some ambivalent statements by Cheney-Coker himself, and argues for a middle view (199–200).
  9. ↑ Biography at World Poetry Database.
  10. ↑ Schaeffer, Glen, "Battling Censorship, One Writer at a Time" (International Institute of Modern Letters, Rainmaker Report Winter 2003/2004), 1.
  11. ↑ Morrison, Jane Ann, "Symbol of Freedom: Exiled Writer: Time is Right to Go Home", Las Vegas Review Journal, 17 January 2003.
  12. ↑ The Poets Documentary at Icarus Films.
  13. ↑ R. Victoria Arana, "Cheney-Coker, Syl", in Encyclopedia of World Poetry, Infobase Learning, 2015.

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