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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... women resist the changes , Tayo welcomes them , and Falemara bears witness to them . Upheaval is not the same thing as transition from one condition to an- other , as in some one - way movement from tradition from modernity . A ju ...
... women with Western education . The Northern Region remained closed to these changes . Throughout the colonial period the three regions were under separate administrations , and their development differed sharply . The Western Re- gion ...
... West African novel , the postcolonial novel , or - making a the- matic cut - the novel about women or about African city life ? Any of these categorizations would be perfectly reasonable , and all have TO UNDERSTAND THE NOVEL IN NIGERIA 11.
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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 |