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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... stories of a particular kind and with a particular intent , however , for these writers understand themselves to be bearing witness to Nigerian social experience . The story told in Francis Falemara's novel The Last Chance , which I ...
... story . We assume novels to be fictitious , made up , and we require qualification like “ an autobiographical novel ” or “ a novel based on fact ” if one is not . At the same time we assume novels to be more or less realistic in terms ...
... story " is taken as the unit of analysis whose transfor- mation is under consideration , as in this study , one needs to be aware that there is sharp disagreement over the relative influences of Western and African culture on this ...
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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 |