Reading Nuruddin Farah : the individual, the novel & the idea of home /

The Somali novelist, Nuruddin Farah, is one of the most important African writers today. The central question that this book investigates is the relationship between modern identity and the novel as a genre. Nuruddin Farah's novels are shown by Moolla to encompass the history of the novel: from...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moolla, F. Fiona (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk, GB ; Rochester, NY : James Currey, [2014]
Temas:
Farah, Nuruddin, > 1945- > Criticism and interpretation.
Farah, Nuruddin, > 1945-
Postmodernism (Literature) > Somalia.
Postmodernisme (Littérature) > Somalie.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
Literature
Postmodernism (Literature)
Somalia > In literature.
Somalia
Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Defining the individual : conceptual & historical limits
  • 2. From a crooked rib & the Bildungsroman : developing the self, developing the nation
  • 3. The 'gynocentric' Bildungsroman : Sardines & Gifts
  • 4. Modernism in A naked needle & Sweet & sour milk : irony, morality & the aesthetic
  • 5. Close sesame & the representation of heteronomy
  • 6. Dissolving the boundaries of self & nation in Maps & Secrets
  • 7. Reconstructing the subject in the third trilogy : Links, Knots & Crossbones.

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