LEADER 03595nam 22005413 450 001 9910433251603321 005 20231110172225.0 010 $a1-00-301745-2 010 $a1-000-04054-2 010 $a1-003-01745-2 024 8 $ahttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003017455 035 $a(CKB)4100000010159293 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6037706 035 $a(OCoLC)1140387103 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1140387103 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9781003017455 035 $a(ScCtBLL)c6f9881d-8e41-44b2-aaf7-7c8707803a81 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34824 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7245494 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7245494 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010159293 100 $a20231110d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||unuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe literary history of the Igbo novel $eAfrican literature in African languages /$fErnest Emenyonu 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York, New York :$cRoutledge,$d2020. 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (161 pages) 225 1 $aRoutledge African studies 311 $a0-367-36961-3 327 $a1. The Need for a Literary History 2. Igbo Literary Origins 3. Minstrelsy in Traditional Igbo Society: Remembering a Pioneer Legend--Israel Nwao?ba Njemanze (Alias Israel Nwao?ba) 4. From Voice to Text: Missionary Influence on the Development of Igbo Orthography and Written Igbo Literature 5. Early Fiction in Igbo--The Pioneers 6. The Crisis of Standardization of Written (Literary) Igbo Language: Pioneer Efforts of F.C. Ogbalu: Founder and Architect, Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture (SPILC) 7. On the Threshold of Another Blackout: A New Controversy over the Standardization of Written (Literary) Igbo 8. Chinua Achebe and the Problematics of Writing in Indigenous Nigerian Languages: Towards a Resolution of the Igbo Language Predicament 9. The Female Voice--Rebuttal and Response to Patriarchy:Julie Onwuchekwa's Chinaago?ro?m(1983) 10. Tony Uchenna Ubesie: The Quintessential Igbo Novelist 11. Interviews with Two Major Igbo Novelists: J.U.T Nzeako and Chinedu Ofomata 330 $aThis book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo novel. Defining "Igbo literature" as literature in Igbo language, and "Igbo novel" as a novel written in Igbo language, the author argues that oral and written literature in African indigenous languages hold an important foundational position in the history of African literature. Focusing on the contributions of Igbo writers to the development of African literature in African languages, the book examines the evolution, themes, and distinctive features of the Igbo novel, the historical circumstances of the rise of the African novel in the pre-colonial, era and their impact on the contemporary Igbo novel. This book will be of interest to scholars of African literature, literary history, and Igbo studies. 410 0$aRoutledge African studies. 606 $aIgbo fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aIgbo fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823.0099669 700 $aEmenyonu$b Ernest$01588044 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910433251603321 996 $aThe literary history of the Igbo novel$93877037 997 $aUNINA