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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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 |