04098nam 2200601 450 991081490390332120230803222213.094-012-1109-4(CKB)2550000001352627(EBL)1741520(SSID)ssj0001379227(PQKBManifestationID)11757812(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001379227(PQKBWorkID)11355238(PQKB)11025773(MiAaPQ)EBC1741520(Au-PeEL)EBL1741520(CaPaEBR)ebr10930409(CaONFJC)MIL642946(OCoLC)890529462(EXLCZ)99255000000135262720140925h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTradition and change in contemporary West and East African fiction /edited by Ogaga Okuyade ; contributors, Olusegun Adekoya [and twenty-one others]Amsterdam, Netherlands :Rodopi,2014.©20141 online resource (434 p.)Matatu : Journal for African Culture and Society ;Number 45Description based upon print version of record.90-420-3867-5 1-322-11695-4 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Womanhood, Sexuality, and WorkThe Dialectic of Exploitation (Flora Nwapa,Nawal El Saadawi, and Ama Ata Aidoo); Outgoing and Incoming Africans Migration and Reverse Migrationin Contemporary African Narratives; Development Imperatives and Transnationalismin Third-Generation Nigerian Fiction; Creativity and the Ugandan WomanThe Dialectic of Struggle and Equality in Mary Karooro Okurut's The Invisible Weevil and Violet Barungi's Cassandra; Satire, Children, and Traumatic ViolenceThe Case of Ahmadou Kourouma and Uwen AkpanAffect in Representations of Children''s Experiences of Mass Violence Uwem Akpan''s Say You're One of Them and Goretti Kyomuhendo''s Secrets no MoreMirror Writing, Social Realism, and theInterrogation of the Postcolonial Nation Alobwed''Epie''s The Death Certificate and The Day God Blinked; Transnationalism and the Agenda of African Literature in a Digital Age; Postcolonial Encounters Re-Envisioned Kojo Laing''s Woman of the Aeroplanes as Trickster Narrative; Countries of the Mind Space-Time Chronotopes in Adichie''s Purple HibiscusWriting Back with a Difference Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie''s ''''The Headstrong Historian'''' as a Response to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall ApartNegotiation of Socio-Ethnic Spaces Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie''s Half of a Yellow Sun as a Testimonio of African National and Ethnic Identity; Strangers in/to the World The Unhomely in Chris Abani''s GraceLand; Maik Nwosu''s Invisible Chapter sInvestigating Psychological Fragmentation in Nigerian Literature; The Global Underground and the Illegitimate Diasporas in Chika Unigwe''s On Black Sisters'' StreetFictional Narrative and the Reflective Self in Helon Habila''s Waiting for an AngelInverting Otherness in Kaine Agary''s Yellow-Yellow; Love''s Metamorphosis in Third-Generation African Women's Writing The Example of Lola Shoneyin''s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi''s Wives; Gender and (Homo) Sexualityin Third-Generation African Writing A Reading of Unoma Azuah''s Sky-High Flames and Jude Dibia's Walking with Shadows; Motif/ves of Justice in Writings by Third-Generation Nigerian Women; Notes on Contributors; Notes for Contributors to MatatuMatatu ;Number 45.African literatureHistory and criticismAfrican literatureHistory and criticism.809.896Okuyade OgagaAdekoya OlusegunMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814903903321Tradition and change in contemporary West and East African fiction3958984UNINA