03338nam 2200505 450 991077460910332120231110225100.01-00-329018-31-000-85211-31-000-85214-81-003-29018-3https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003290186s(MiAaPQ)EBC7193989(Au-PeEL)EBL7193989(CKB)26113455400041(ScCtBLL)3db40442-68e8-4133-b2e3-596055691240(EXLCZ)992611345540004120230516d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNigeria's third-generation literature content and form /Ode OgedeOxon, UK ;New York, NY :Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,[2023]©20231 online resource (327 pages)Routledge Studies in African Literature SeriesPrint version: Ogede, Ode Nigeria's Third-Generation Literature Milton : Taylor & Francis Group,c2023 9781032268422 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.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.Routledge Studies in African Literature Nigerian fiction (English)History and criticismPostcolonialism in literatureNigerian fiction (English)History and criticism.Postcolonialism in literature.820.9/9669Ogede Ode1130367MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910774609103321Nigeria's third-generation literature3664866UNINA