Bearing Witness : Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria /

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Greed, 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 var...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Griswold, Wendy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Colección:Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology ; 6
Temas:
Authors and readers > Nigeria.
Fiction > Appreciation > Nigeria.
Literature and society > Nigeria.
Nigerian fiction (English) > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / African.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • KEY DATES IN NIGERIAN HISTORY
  • CHAPTER 1. To Understand the Novel in Nigeria
  • CHAPTER 2. The Nigerian Fiction Complex
  • CHAPTER 3. Nigerian Novels
  • CHAPTER 4. Capturing the Past and Inventing the Future
  • APPENDIX A. Nigerian novels
  • APPENDIX B. Nigerian authors
  • APPENDIX C. Coding forms
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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