LEADER 03338nam 2200505 450 001 9910774609103321 005 20231110225100.0 010 $a1-00-329018-3 010 $a1-000-85211-3 010 $a1-000-85214-8 010 $a1-003-29018-3 024 8 $ahttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003290186s 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7193989 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7193989 035 $a(CKB)26113455400041 035 $a(ScCtBLL)3db40442-68e8-4133-b2e3-596055691240 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926113455400041 100 $a20230516d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNigeria's third-generation literature $econtent and form /$fOde Ogede 210 1$aOxon, UK ;$aNew York, NY :$cRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group,$d[2023] 210 4$dİ2023 215 $a1 online resource (327 pages) 225 0 $aRoutledge Studies in African Literature Series 311 08$aPrint version: Ogede, Ode Nigeria's Third-Generation Literature Milton : Taylor & Francis Group,c2023 9781032268422 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $aThis book considers the evolution and characteristics of Nigeria's third-generation literature, which emerged between the late 1980s and the early 1990s and is marked by expressive modes and concerns distinctly different from those of the preceding era. 410 0$aRoutledge Studies in African Literature 606 $aNigerian fiction (English)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPostcolonialism in literature 615 0$aNigerian fiction (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPostcolonialism in literature. 676 $a820.9/9669 700 $aOgede$b Ode$01130367 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910774609103321 996 $aNigeria's third-generation literature$93664866 997 $aUNINA