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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... Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is published . Action group splits due to rift be- tween Awolowo and KEY DATES IN NIGERIAN HISTORY xvii.
... Chinua Achebe re- turns to Nigeria for the first time in nine years . xxiv KEY DATES IN NIGERIAN HISTORY.
... Achebe's Things Fall Apart , Laye's The Radiance of the King or Ekwensi's People of the City would reveal that they ... Chinua Achebe , Abiola Irelele , and Chinweizu are three well - known Nigerian critics who , despite their ...
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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 |