Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in NigeriaGreed, frustrated love, traffic jams, infertility, politics, polygamy. These--together with depictions of traditional village life and the impact of colonialism made familiar to Western readers through Chinua Achebe's writing--are the stuff of Nigerian fiction. Bearing Witness examines this varied content and the determined people who, against all odds, write, publish, sell, and read novels in Africa's most populous nation. |
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... kingdom centered in Ife under oni ( king ) . In north some Hausa city - states ( Kano , Katsina ) build walled towns . Oyo kingdom surpasses Ife in Yorubaland . Benin becomes major power between Yorubaland and the Niger . First European ...
... city novels , novels about gender , formulaic ro- mances , war novels , novels about academic or intellectual life ... BENIN .Sokoto NIGER Niger .Kano Maiduguri Zaria Kaduna . 6 CHAPTER 1 In Nigeria.
Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria Wendy Griswold. MALI BENIN .Sokoto NIGER Niger .Kano Maiduguri Zaria Kaduna . Jos Minna N .Ilorin • Ogbomosho ' Oshogbo I G ERIA Abuja Benue Ibadan , Abeokuta Lagos Benin City Enugu Warri ...
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Contents
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CHAPTER 2 The Nigerian Fiction Complex | 26 |
CHAPTER 3 Nigerian Novels | 120 |
CHAPTER 4 Capturing the Past and Inventing the Future | 269 |
APPENDIX A Nigerian novels | 275 |
APPENDIX B Nigerian authors | 288 |
APPENDIX C Coding forms | 292 |
NOTES | 297 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 323 |
INDEX | 333 |
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Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria Wendy Griswold No preview available - 2000 |