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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... Lagos , for- merly CMS Economic Community of West African States , created in 1975 with goal of reducing trade barriers in the region Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture , held in Lagos in 1977 Federal Military ...
... Lagos Daily News , raises political awareness ; founds Nigerian National Democratic Party in Lagos in 1922 . Rise of Nigerian Youth Movement under H. O. Davies and Nnamdi Azikiwe ; in 1938 defeats NNDP , attempts to form genuinely ...
... Lagos har- bor . In July bloodless coup puts Murtala Muhammed in power . He receives broad popular support , centralizes government power , purges public officials , begins shrinking military , promises to hand over power in 1979 ...
... Lagos as federal capital . June 12 presidential elections , apparently won by Moshood K. O. Abiola , abruptly annulled by Babangida . In August caretaker government appointed under Chief Ernest Shonekan . In No- vember General Sani ...
... Lagos to work for a newspaper . In long conversations with his editor , Tayo worries about being saddled with a “ bush ” wife while the older man praises unspoiled village girls like Lenuse compared to the Lagos glamour girls Tayo ...
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 |