Des tranchées à la mangrove : Généalogies poétiques de la Grande Guerre à la "guerre du Biafra"
The Nigerian Civil war broke out in 1967 a few years after independence. It lasted up to January 1970. It inspired many soldiers, whether students or confirmed writers. They fought on both sides or like Wole Soyinka, tried to find a third way to solve the conflict. The violence they met inspired poe...
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| description | The Nigerian Civil war broke out in 1967 a few years after independence. It lasted up to January 1970. It inspired many soldiers, whether students or confirmed writers. They fought on both sides or like Wole Soyinka, tried to find a third way to solve the conflict. The violence they met inspired poems which may be linked to the War Poets of 1914-1918. The influence of the British poets on Nigerian writers takes its roots in history, Nigeria being a British colony until 1960. But this inheritance has not only to do with similar degree courses in universities. It is also related to the nature of both conflicts of unprecedented violence with soldiers facing terrifying scenes leading them to disenchantment. Unsurprisingly, their poetry expresses common themes and images, springing from the intense feeling of the uselessness of so many massacre. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5e1b95da8a4f486b8a20d0cc3f7785562025-08-20T03:44:28ZengPresses Universitaires du MidiCaliban: French Journal of English Studies2425-62502431-17662015-05-01538911010.4000/caliban.994Des tranchées à la mangrove : Généalogies poétiques de la Grande Guerre à la "guerre du Biafra"Nelly SegersThe Nigerian Civil war broke out in 1967 a few years after independence. It lasted up to January 1970. It inspired many soldiers, whether students or confirmed writers. They fought on both sides or like Wole Soyinka, tried to find a third way to solve the conflict. The violence they met inspired poems which may be linked to the War Poets of 1914-1918. The influence of the British poets on Nigerian writers takes its roots in history, Nigeria being a British colony until 1960. But this inheritance has not only to do with similar degree courses in universities. It is also related to the nature of both conflicts of unprecedented violence with soldiers facing terrifying scenes leading them to disenchantment. Unsurprisingly, their poetry expresses common themes and images, springing from the intense feeling of the uselessness of so many massacre.https://journals.openedition.org/caliban/994poetryNigeriaCivil Warthe Great War1966-19701914-1918 |
| spellingShingle | Nelly Segers Des tranchées à la mangrove : Généalogies poétiques de la Grande Guerre à la "guerre du Biafra" Caliban: French Journal of English Studies poetry Nigeria Civil War the Great War 1966-1970 1914-1918 |
| title | Des tranchées à la mangrove : Généalogies poétiques de la Grande Guerre à la "guerre du Biafra" |
| title_full | Des tranchées à la mangrove : Généalogies poétiques de la Grande Guerre à la "guerre du Biafra" |
| title_fullStr | Des tranchées à la mangrove : Généalogies poétiques de la Grande Guerre à la "guerre du Biafra" |
| title_full_unstemmed | Des tranchées à la mangrove : Généalogies poétiques de la Grande Guerre à la "guerre du Biafra" |
| title_short | Des tranchées à la mangrove : Généalogies poétiques de la Grande Guerre à la "guerre du Biafra" |
| title_sort | des tranchees a la mangrove genealogies poetiques de la grande guerre a la guerre du biafra |
| topic | poetry Nigeria Civil War the Great War 1966-1970 1914-1918 |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/caliban/994 |
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