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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... literary culture , and they rose to the occasion when I was distracted by the demands of my research . John , Ray , and Olivia , know that you are the beginning and end of everything I do , including writing this book . ABBREVIATIONS ...
... Literary and cultural developments Urbanized Ife culture with so- phisticated sculpture and metal- work ; oni a religious as well as political leader . Islam gradually entering Hausaland via trans- Saharan caravan routes . Court of oba ...
... literary celebrities like Wole Soyinka to ambitious students to sleep - deprived mothers writing out their stories in longhand before the children wake up ; Francis Falemara wrote The Last Chance in the early mornings before going to ...
... literary wares on an open and impersonal market.4 The awkward combination of individualism and market dependence char- acterized the novel from its inception . Individualism and the literary market , however , do not operate in Nige ...
... literary witnessing has taken place . I will discuss methodological issues later in this chapter , but in light of the aforementioned " confusion , " it seems appropriate to address the ques- tion of why the " Nigerian novel " ? If ...
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 |