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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... Tayo to submit to the match . Villagers adorn the reluctant bride and , weeping piteously , Lenuse is car- ried to her new home . Tayo ignores her . Jagan assumes that sooner or later nature will take its course , but Tayo heads for ...
... Tayo experience an upheaval in social relations and individual expectations . The two women resist the changes , Tayo welcomes them , and Falemara bears witness to them . Upheaval is not the same thing as transition from one condition ...
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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 |