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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... gender , and on the existential dilemmas faced by postcolonial intellectuals . They have also written plenty of blood- and - sex thrillers and formulaic romances . Nigerian authors range from in- ternational literary celebrities like ...
... gender , formulaic ro- mances , war novels , novels about academic or intellectual life , crime nov- els , political novels — and specifies the motifs and mythic structures of each . Along the way I hazard some explanations for these ...
... gender roles , quite explicitly . Amuta advo- cates honoring the specific historical particularities , conceived of as rela- tionships of power and class conflict , in which an African literary form is produced . In the case of the ...
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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 |