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Record Nr.

UNINA9910647377603321

Autore

Hannerz Ulf

Titolo

Afropolitan Horizons : Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria / / Ulf Hannerz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[s.l.] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2022

ISBN

9781800732995

1800732996

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Literary Criticism / African

Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African Studies

Literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

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 momentous events in Nigerian history. Afropolitan Horizons discusses their work alongside other novelists and commentators, as well as describing the ways in which Nigeria has appeared in foreign news reporting. It is all interwoven with the author's own anthropological field research in a town in Central Nigeria.