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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... : Printing , Petitions , and the Public Sphere in Early - Modern England by David Zaret Bearing Witness : Readers , Writers , and the Novel in Nigeria by Wendy Griswold BEARING WITNESS READERS , WRITERS , AND THE NOVEL IN.
... modern , ” even though they are operating in a literary world that is not . What are the implications of this disjunction for their ability to bear witness to their society ? In the following chapters I try to understand the Nigerian ...
... Modern Nigeria . " Nigeria's present boundaries were established in 1914 when Britain , in the usual arbitrary manner , cobbled together what had been a shifting se- ries of colonial administrative regions into the Colony and ...
... modern , democratic , and prosperous society . Nigerians cling to this progressive view of their country's present and future despite considerable evidence to the contrary . Their faith that the Giant of Africa will eventually assume ...
... modern novel . " Another states that " the term ' novel ' is now applied to a great variety of writings that have in common only the attribute of being extended works of fiction written in prose . " This criterion of novels being ...
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 |