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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... student research assistants who went the extra mile for this pro- ject , including Ben Arah , Steve Ellingson , Kathy Hull , Anne Nye , Kristen Swenson , and Nathan Wright . Financial support for this research , either directly or in ...
... Student demonstrations at Ah- madu Bello University and Kaduna Polytechnic leads to military occupation of cam- puses , many deaths . Furor among Christians over Nige- ria's entry into the Organiza- tion of the Islamic Conference . Wole ...
... 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 work as police force marine officer for Lagos State ...
... student days . . . . African novelists have modified the genre largely in the direction of themes , language , setting and point of view . But this does not suggest that it is basically different from the western and that entirely ...
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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 |