Nigeria's third-generation literature content and form
This book considers the evolution and characteristics of Nigeria's third-generation literature, which emerged between the late 1980s and the early 1990s and is marked by expressive modes and concerns distinctly different from those of the preceding era.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxon, UK ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2023.
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| Colección: | Routledge Studies in African Literature
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009866436606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. New Wines and Old and New Bottles: Art and the Pulse of the Nation
- Notes
- 2. Parable, Metaphor, the Pictorial Frame, Emblem of Moral Decadence: Fiction in Revolt, Washing Dirty Linen in Public (Maria Ajima's The Web)
- Notes
- 3. Allegory, Migration, Mock-Epic, and Unspeakable Subjects: The Lure of Glamour, Empire of Material Things (Okey Ndibe's Foreign Gods, Inc.)
- Notes
- 4. Allegory, Elegy, Prose, the Labyrinths of Disquietude: Art and the Wellsprings of Discontent (Teju Cole's Open City)
- Notes
- 5. Subverted Narrative of Disappointed Expectations: Immigration, Chattel Sex Slavery or Prostitution, Horrors of the Unutterable on the Borderline of Magical Realism (Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters Street)
- Notes
- 6. Ethnography, Patriarchy (or Male Dominance), Anecdotal Portraiture, and the Unspeakable Subject of Co-Wife Rivalry, or the Dilemma of the Western Educated Woman within Polygyny (Lola Shoneyin's The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives)
- Notes
- 7. Anecdote, Allegory, and the Pictorial Frame II: The Short Story as Forum for Documentary Realism (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck)
- Notes
- 8. Signing Off/Out: The Politics of Language, Nigerian Literature, Now and in the Future
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
