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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... Western and Eastern regions be- come self - governing . Federal Executive Council formed , with Abubakar Tafawa Balewa ( NPC ) appointed prime minister . Export of oil begins from Port Harcourt . North becomes self - governing ...
... Western Region . Akintola organizes United People's Party ( later NNDP ) , collaborates with NPC - NCNC . Riots in Western Region produce state of emergency ; legislature dis- solved , many Action Group leaders arrested . Census held ...
... Western modernity , the sharpness of the clash between them , and the ambivalence of people like Tayo suspended in the middle are very Nigerian . Far and away the largest country in Africa , Nigeria has produced a huge quantity and ...
... Western man of letters : they regard them- selves as independent intellectuals , as writing for a small - but - surely - grow- ing reading public , and as both entertaining and instructing that public through their fiction . In this ...
... Western Region , Yorubaland , fell between these two extremes of traditionalism and Westernization . The Oyo Empire , which had been a major exporter of slaves in the eighteenth century , had broken down once and for all by 1819 , and ...
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 |