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Peter Nazareth (born 27 April 1940) is a
Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa
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n-born literary critic and writer of fiction and drama.
Life
Peter Nazareth was born in Uganda of
India
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n
Goan
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ancestry, and his mother's family was earlier based in Malaya-Malaysia-Singapore. He was educated at
Makerere University
Makerere University, Kampala (; Mak) is Uganda's largest and oldest institution of higher learning, first established as a technical school in 1922. It became an independent national university in 1970. Today, Makerere University is composed of n ...
(
Kampala
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, Uganda), where he received his BA in English Literature in 1962, and at the universities of
London
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and
Leeds
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in England.
While residing in Africa, he simultaneously served as senior finance officer in
Idi Amin
Idi Amin Dada Oumee (, ; 16 August 2003) was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. He ruled as a military dictator and is considered one of the most brutal despots in modern w ...
's finance ministry until 1973, when he accepted a fellowship at
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
and emigrated to the United States from Uganda.
In academia
He is a professor of English and African-American World Studies at the
University of Iowa
The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public university, public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is org ...
, where he is also a consultant to the
International Writing Program
The International Writing Program (IWP) is a writing residency for international artists in Iowa City, Iowa. Since 2014, the program offers online courses to many writers and poets around the world. Since its inception in 1967, the IWP has hosted o ...
.
Nazareth taught that university's course "Elvis as Anthology", which explores the deep mythological roots of
Elvis Presley
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's roles in popular culture.
This class on Elvis led to Nazareth being interviewed by a range of publications — ''
The Wall Street Journal
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'',
UPI
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,
AP, ''World News Tonight With Peter Jennings'', NBC's ''
The Today Show
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'',
ABC Chicago,
MTV
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,
Voice of America
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,
National Public Radio
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, the
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, and the ''Cedar Rapids Gazette'', among others, according to his cv.
He teaches and has written about
African
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,
Caribbean
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,
African-American
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,
Goan
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, and other literatures. His publications include ''In the Trickster Tradition: The Novels of Andrew Salkey, Francis Ebejer, and Ishmael Reed'' (1994); ''Edwin Thumboo: Creating a Nation Through Poetry'' (2008); and the long essay "Elvis as Anthology" in Vernon Chadwick (ed.), ''In Search of Elvis: Music, Race, Art, Religion''. Nazareth edited ''Critical Essays on Ngugi wa Thiong'o'' (2000) and ''Pivoting on the Point of Return: Modern Goan Literature'' (2010). His first novel, ''In a Brown Mantle'' (1972), has been taught at the
University of Pretoria
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and by
Ngugi wa Thiong’o Ngugi or Ngũgĩ is a name of Kikuyu origin that may refer to:
*Ngugi wa Mirii (1951–2008), Kenyan playwright
*Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (born 1938), Kenyan writer
*David Mwaniki Ngugi, Kenyan politician and member of the National Assembly of Kenya
*Jo ...
at
U.C. Irvine.
His literary criticisms have often involved observations of the fate of diverse global economic and academic migrants, spanning the Asian, African and black American cultural histories.
This includes the Goan diaspora
settled in Western countries, the post-
Idi Amin
Idi Amin Dada Oumee (, ; 16 August 2003) was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. He ruled as a military dictator and is considered one of the most brutal despots in modern w ...
Asian emigration from Eastern Africa, and the cultural superstitions of the pre-
Obama
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presidency of American politics. Nazareth has edited a special issue of the journal ''
Callaloo
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'' on Goan literature, and an anthology of its literature, and has championed the work of Mozambique-born Goan writer
Violet Dias Lannoy.
[.]
Family
He has been married to Mary Nazareth for more than 50 years. They have two daughters.
Works
Books
* ''In a Brown Mantle'',
East African Literature Bureau
The Kenya Literature Bureau (KLB) is a publishing house and state corporation in Kenya founded in 1947. It is located in South-C off Popo Road in Nairobi.
History
The Kenya Literature Bureau was initially established by the "East Africa governm ...
, 1972; Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1981.
* ''Literature and Society in Modern Africa'', East African Literature Bureau, 1972; Kenya Literature Bureau, 1980; published as ''An African View of Literature'', Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1974.
* ''Two Radio Plays'', East African Literature Bureau, 1976.
* ''The Third World Writer: His Social Responsibility'', Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1978.
* ''Literature of the African Peoples'', Study Guide for Independent Study with audiotape/CD, Center for Credit Programs, The University of Iowa, 1983.
* ''A Feny Fele'', Budapest: Europa Publishing House, 1984 (selected essays in Hungarian translation)
* ''
The General is Up'', Toronto: TSAR Books, 1991
* ''In the Trickster Tradition: The Novels of Andrew Salkey, Francis Ebejer and Ishmael Reed'', London:
Bogle-L'Ouverture Press, 1994.
* ''Edwin Thumboo: Creating a Nation Through Poetry'', Singapore: Interlogue Series Vol. 7,
Ethos Books
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, 2008.
Ebooks
* ''Re-Membering Singapore''.
* ''Elvis -- Rewriting the World through Multicultural Movies''.
Edited anthologies
* ''African Writing Today'', special issue of ''Pacific Quarterly Moana'', Hamilton, New Zealand: Outrigger Publishers, Vol. 6, No. 3/4, 1981.
* ''Goan Literature: A Modern Reader'', issue of the ''Journal of South Asian Literature'', East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1983.
* ''Critical Essays on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o'', New York: G.K. Hall, 2000.
* ''Uganda South Asians Exodus: Kololian Perspectives'' (co-edited), University of Toronto, 2002.
References
External links
* Megan Carney
"Peter Nazareth, Ugandan Born UI Professor Enlivens Classes with His Multi-cultural Heritage" ''The Iowa Source'', 8 February 2008.
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Ugandan emigrants to the United States
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Living people
1940 births
Makerere University alumni
Alumni of the University of London
Alumni of the University of Leeds
Yale University faculty
University of Iowa faculty
Ugandan people of Goan descent
Literary critics
Ugandan dramatists and playwrights
International Writing Program alumni
Ugandan expatriates in the United Kingdom