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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... traditional patrons such as church , court , or aris- tocratic families . Their situation gave rise to " the author " as an ideal type : autonomous and beholden to no one , but at the same time forced to earn a living by selling his ...
... traditional political authority had been dif- fuse . No one higher than the village level could demand obedience ... traditional rulers and propped up or revived others , thus giving some stability ( with a veneer of traditional ...
... traditional plots ; ( 5 ) tradition - free language ; ( 6 ) individualism and subjectivity ; ( 7 ) empathy and vicariousness ; ( 8 ) coher- ence , unity of design ; ( 9 ) some degree of digressiveness , fragmentation ; ( 10 ) self ...
... traditional Yoruba folklore , denies any African essentialism , as in his well- known dismissal of Négritude that tigers didn't have to go around pro- claiming their tigritude . Indeed , the Négritude movement , developed by Senegalese ...
... traditional rulers " as his example : " In present day Nigeria , for instance , the institution of traditional rulership has been selected and de- creed into a national imperative by successive military governments since the Mohammed ...
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 |