Bearing Witness : : Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria / / Wendy Griswold.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- 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