Afropolitan Horizons Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria

Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers from Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Wole Soyinka to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Teju Cole have portrayed these Nigerian issues, and have also written about some of the moment...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hannerz, Ulf, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books 2022.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009675628706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Nigerian Connections
  • Palm Wine, Amos Tutuola, and a Literary Gatekeeper
  • Bahia-Lagos-Ouidah: Mariana's Story
  • Igbo Life, Past and Present: Three Views
  • Inland, Upriver with the Empire: Borrioboola-Gha
  • The City, according to Ekwensi . . . and Onuzo
  • Points of Cultural Geography: Ibadan . . . Enugu, Onitsha, Nsukka
  • Been-To: Dreams, Disappointments, Departures, and Returns
  • Dateline Lagos: Reporting on Nigeria to the World
  • Death in Lagos
  • Tai Solarin: On Colonial Power, Schools, Work Ethic, Religion, and the Press
  • Wole Soyinka, Leo Frobenius, and the Ori Olokun
  • A Voice from the Purdah: Baba of Karo
  • Bauchi: The Academic and the Imam
  • Railtown Writers
  • Nigeria at War
  • America Observed: With Nigerian Eyes
  • Transatlantic Shuttle
  • Sojourners from Black Britain
  • Oyotunji Village, South Carolina: Reverse Afropolitanism.