Bearing witness : readers, writers, and the novel in Nigeria
Wendy Griswold (Author)
Greed, frustrated love, traffic jams, infertility, politics, polygamy. These are the stuff of Nigerian fiction. This text examines this varied content and the determined people who, against all odds, write, publish, sell and read novels in Africa's most populous nation.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiii Key Dates In Nigerian History xv CHAPTER 1 To Understand the Novel in Nigeria 3 In Nigeria 6 The Novel 13 To Understand 17 CHAPTER 2 The Nigerian Fiction Complex 26 The Novels 29 The Writers 38 The Business 60 The Readers 88 CHAPTER 3 Nigerian Novels 120 Village and City 12 3 Women and Men 167 Pen and Sword 208 Crime and Politics 238 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