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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Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria Wendy Griswold. 1830s 1840s 1861 1886 1900 ... political party . Nigerian units fight in Ethiopia , Burma , etc. NYM ... Novels in Hausa and Yoruba published . Awolowo ( Yoruba , west ) ; National ...
... political dis- cussion ; Awolowo calls for demo- cratic socialism , antagonizing mili- tary ; Gowon restores ban ... novels were published from 1970 through 1983 are considered second generation . S. Okechukwu Mezu's Beyond the Rising Sun , ...
... political novels — and specifies the motifs and mythic structures of each . Along the way I hazard some explanations for these motifs and structures , explanations that , although necessarily incomplete , are rooted in a belief in ...
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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 |