TY  - BOOK
AU  - Newell,Stephanie
TI  - The forger's tale: the search for Odeziaku 
T2  - New African histories series
SN  - 9780821442302
AV  - PR6037.T915 Z79 2006eb
U1  - 828/.91209 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Athens
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Stuart-Young, John Moray,
KW  - Authors, English
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Gay authors
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Gay men
KW  - Identity
KW  - Africa
KW  - Forgers
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - fast
KW  - British colonies
KW  - HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
KW  - Colonies
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index; Forging ahead: the secret gentleman of Ardwick Green -- The palm oil trader's view -- Fragments of Oscar Wilde in colonial Nigeria -- "Uranian" love in West Africa -- The politics of naming : Igbo perspectives on Stuart-Young -- The strange toleration of Stuart-Young in the African-owned press of Nigeria -- A class apart : "Johnny Jones" of Back Kay Street -- The production of a poet : Stuart-Young's verse and its readers
N2  - Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on the streets of Onitsha, in Eastern Nigeria. How was it possible for an unconventional, boy-loving Englishman to gain a social status among the local populace enjoyed by few other Europeans in colonial West Africa? In The Forger''s Tale: The Search for Odeziaku Stephanie Newell charts the story of the English novelist and poet John Moray Stuart-Young (1881-1939) as he traveled from the slums of Manchester to West Africa in order to escape the hom
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