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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... colony . Royal Niger Company chartered for trading under Georgie Goldie , subsequently freezing out French and German trading and thus laying British colonial claim . Frederick Lugard named high commissioner of Protectorate of Northern ...
... colonial period , which was less than fifty years long for Nigeria as a whole , people who spoke different languages ... colony . The British colonialists considered other colorful possibilities , including MALI BENIN .Sokoto NIGER Niger ...
... colonial administrative regions into the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria . The British had traded in the Niger River area since the eighteenth century and had established the Lagos Colony in 1861. For some time they had been hesitant ...
... Colonial administrators used the con- cept of hometown to sort out the Yoruba , thus turning the multiple mean- ings that such towns had in Yoruba political traditions into a rigid and last- ing classification system . Perhaps the most ...
... colony's commercial and polit- ical heart . The Eastern Region , densely populated although it had no coun- terpart to ... colonial period . Thus by Octo- ber 1 , 1960 , when Nigeria became an independent nation , it was not at all clear ...
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 |