Nigeria's third-generation literature : content and form / / Ode Ogede |
Autore | Ogede Ode |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxon, UK ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , [2023] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 pages) |
Disciplina | 820.9/9669 |
Collana | Routledge Studies in African Literature Series |
Soggetto topico |
Nigerian fiction (English) - History and criticism
Postcolonialism in literature |
ISBN |
1-00-329018-3
1-000-85211-3 1-000-85214-8 1-003-29018-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910774609103321 |
Ogede Ode | ||
Oxon, UK ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , [2023] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Privately Empowered [[electronic resource] ] : Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction / / Shirin Edwin |
Autore | Edwin Shirin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Evanston, Illinois, : Northwestern University Press, 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 823.0099669 |
Soggetto topico |
Islam - Nigeria
Feminism - Religious aspects - Islam Muslim women in literature Nigerian fiction (English) - History and criticism |
ISBN | 0-8101-3369-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Conjugating feminisms: African, Islamic as African-Islamic discourse -- Connecting vocabularies: a grammar of histories, politics, and priorities in African and Islamic feminisms -- Noetic education and Islamic faith: personal transformation in the stillborn -- Historical templates and Islamic disposition: personal journeys in the virtuous woman -- Spiritual legacies and worship: personal spaces in the descendants -- Frequent functions and references: personal solutions in sacred apples and destiny. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910213854103321 |
Edwin Shirin | ||
Evanston, Illinois, : Northwestern University Press, 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Remembering a Legend: Chinua Achebe / by Ernest N. Emenyonu & Charles E. Nnolim, 2014 |
Autore | Emenyo̲nu Ernest <1939-> |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : African Heritage Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.99669 |
Soggetto topico |
Nigerian fiction (English)
LITERARY CRITICISM - European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Nigerian fiction (English) - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-940729-13-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Chinua Achebe: The Passing of a Comet; Chinua Achebe: A re-assessment; Achebe's Things Fall Apart: An Igbo National Epic; Things Fall Apart (1958) at 50: Chinua Achebe's 'Mustard Seed' *; The Colonial Encounter in the African Novel: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart; Characterization and Social Vision in Achebe's Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease: a study of the Iconoclast and the stigmatized 'other'; Characterization in The Nigerian Novel: Ezeulu in Arrow of God; Technique and Meaning in Achebe's Arrow Of God
The Form and Function of the Folk Tradition in Achebe's NovelsThe Socialist Vision in the Nigerian Novel: Chinua Achebe's The Anthills of the Savannah and Festus Iyayi's Heroes; Selection and Validation of Oral Materials for Children's Literature: Artistic Resources in Chinua Achebe's Fiction for Children; (Re) Inventing the Past for the Present: Symbolism in Chinua Achebe's How the Leopard Got His Claws; The Short Story as a Genre, with Notes on Achebe's "The Madman" Chinua Achebe and the Problematics of Writing in Indigenous Nigerian Languages: Towards the Resolution of the Igbo Language PredicamentAchebe: Accountable to Our Society - An Interview; Dimensions of Productivity in the Poetry of Chinua Achebe; There Was a Country: Chinua Achebe's Exit Testimony to Nigeria; Back cover |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460647903321 |
Emenyo̲nu Ernest <1939-> | ||
New York : , : African Heritage Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Remembering a Legend: Chinua Achebe / by Ernest N. Emenyonu & Charles E. Nnolim, 2014 |
Autore | Emenyo̲nu Ernest <1939-> |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : African Heritage Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.99669 |
Soggetto topico |
Nigerian fiction (English)
LITERARY CRITICISM - European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Nigerian fiction (English) - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
ISBN | 1-940729-13-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Chinua Achebe: The Passing of a Comet; Chinua Achebe: A re-assessment; Achebe's Things Fall Apart: An Igbo National Epic; Things Fall Apart (1958) at 50: Chinua Achebe's 'Mustard Seed' *; The Colonial Encounter in the African Novel: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart; Characterization and Social Vision in Achebe's Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease: a study of the Iconoclast and the stigmatized 'other'; Characterization in The Nigerian Novel: Ezeulu in Arrow of God; Technique and Meaning in Achebe's Arrow Of God
The Form and Function of the Folk Tradition in Achebe's NovelsThe Socialist Vision in the Nigerian Novel: Chinua Achebe's The Anthills of the Savannah and Festus Iyayi's Heroes; Selection and Validation of Oral Materials for Children's Literature: Artistic Resources in Chinua Achebe's Fiction for Children; (Re) Inventing the Past for the Present: Symbolism in Chinua Achebe's How the Leopard Got His Claws; The Short Story as a Genre, with Notes on Achebe's "The Madman" Chinua Achebe and the Problematics of Writing in Indigenous Nigerian Languages: Towards the Resolution of the Igbo Language PredicamentAchebe: Accountable to Our Society - An Interview; Dimensions of Productivity in the Poetry of Chinua Achebe; There Was a Country: Chinua Achebe's Exit Testimony to Nigeria; Back cover |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787458203321 |
Emenyo̲nu Ernest <1939-> | ||
New York : , : African Heritage Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Remembering a Legend: Chinua Achebe / by Ernest N. Emenyonu & Charles E. Nnolim, 2014 |
Autore | Emenyo̲nu Ernest <1939-> |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : African Heritage Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.99669 |
Soggetto topico |
Nigerian fiction (English)
LITERARY CRITICISM - European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Nigerian fiction (English) - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
ISBN | 1-940729-13-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Chinua Achebe: The Passing of a Comet; Chinua Achebe: A re-assessment; Achebe's Things Fall Apart: An Igbo National Epic; Things Fall Apart (1958) at 50: Chinua Achebe's 'Mustard Seed' *; The Colonial Encounter in the African Novel: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart; Characterization and Social Vision in Achebe's Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease: a study of the Iconoclast and the stigmatized 'other'; Characterization in The Nigerian Novel: Ezeulu in Arrow of God; Technique and Meaning in Achebe's Arrow Of God
The Form and Function of the Folk Tradition in Achebe's NovelsThe Socialist Vision in the Nigerian Novel: Chinua Achebe's The Anthills of the Savannah and Festus Iyayi's Heroes; Selection and Validation of Oral Materials for Children's Literature: Artistic Resources in Chinua Achebe's Fiction for Children; (Re) Inventing the Past for the Present: Symbolism in Chinua Achebe's How the Leopard Got His Claws; The Short Story as a Genre, with Notes on Achebe's "The Madman" Chinua Achebe and the Problematics of Writing in Indigenous Nigerian Languages: Towards the Resolution of the Igbo Language PredicamentAchebe: Accountable to Our Society - An Interview; Dimensions of Productivity in the Poetry of Chinua Achebe; There Was a Country: Chinua Achebe's Exit Testimony to Nigeria; Back cover |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807750103321 |
Emenyo̲nu Ernest <1939-> | ||
New York : , : African Heritage Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The slave's rebellion : literature, history, orature / / Adeleke Adeeko |
Autore | Adeeko Adeleke |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9896073 |
Collana | Blacks in the diaspora |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - African American authors - History and criticism
African Americans - Intellectual life Nigerian fiction (English) - History and criticism Slave insurrections - Historiography Slave insurrections in literature Oral tradition - Caribbean Area African Americans in literature Oral tradition - Africa Slavery in literature |
ISBN |
1-282-07150-5
0-253-11142-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; c o n t e n t s; acknowledgments; introduction; 1. hegel's burden: the slave's counter violence in philosophy, critical theory,and literature; 2. nat turner and plot making in early african american fiction; 3. reverse abolitionism and black popular resistance: the marrow of tradition; 4. slave rebellion, the great depression,and the "turbulence to come" for capitalism: black thunder; 5. distilling proverbs of history from the Haitian war of independence: the black jacobins; 6. slave rebellion and magical realism:the kingdom of this world
7. slavery in African literary discourse: orality contrarealism in yorùbá oríkìand omo oló kùn esin8. prying rebellious subaltern consciousness out of the clenched jaws of oral traditions: efúnsetán aníwúrà; 9. reiterating the black experience:rebellious material bodies and their textual fates in dessa rose; conclusion: what is the meaning of slave rebellion; notes; bibliography; index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827622503321 |
Adeeko Adeleke | ||
Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Slave's Rebellion [[electronic resource] ] : Literature, History, Orature |
Autore | Adâeõáekõâo Adâelâeke |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9896073 |
Collana | Blacks in the diaspora The slave's rebellion |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - African American authors - History and criticism
American literature - African American authors - History and criticism - Caribbean Area African Americans - Intellectual life - Africa Nigerian fiction (English) - History and criticism Slave insurrections - Historiography Slave insurrections in literature Oral tradition African Americans in literature Slavery in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-07150-5
0-253-11142-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; c o n t e n t s; acknowledgments; introduction; 1. hegel's burden: the slave's counter violence in philosophy, critical theory,and literature; 2. nat turner and plot making in early african american fiction; 3. reverse abolitionism and black popular resistance: the marrow of tradition; 4. slave rebellion, the great depression,and the "turbulence to come" for capitalism: black thunder; 5. distilling proverbs of history from the Haitian war of independence: the black jacobins; 6. slave rebellion and magical realism:the kingdom of this world
7. slavery in African literary discourse: orality contrarealism in yorùbá oríkìand omo oló kùn esin8. prying rebellious subaltern consciousness out of the clenched jaws of oral traditions: efúnsetán aníwúrà; 9. reiterating the black experience:rebellious material bodies and their textual fates in dessa rose; conclusion: what is the meaning of slave rebellion; notes; bibliography; index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457618503321 |
Adâeõáekõâo Adâelâeke | ||
Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Slave's Rebellion [[electronic resource] ] : Literature, History, Orature |
Autore | Adâeõáekõâo Adâelâeke |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9896073 |
Collana | Blacks in the diaspora The slave's rebellion |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - African American authors - History and criticism
American literature - African American authors - History and criticism - Caribbean Area African Americans - Intellectual life - Africa Nigerian fiction (English) - History and criticism Slave rebellions - Historiography Slave rebellions in literature Oral tradition African Americans in literature Slavery in literature |
ISBN |
1-282-07150-5
0-253-11142-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; c o n t e n t s; acknowledgments; introduction; 1. hegel's burden: the slave's counter violence in philosophy, critical theory,and literature; 2. nat turner and plot making in early african american fiction; 3. reverse abolitionism and black popular resistance: the marrow of tradition; 4. slave rebellion, the great depression,and the "turbulence to come" for capitalism: black thunder; 5. distilling proverbs of history from the Haitian war of independence: the black jacobins; 6. slave rebellion and magical realism:the kingdom of this world
7. slavery in African literary discourse: orality contrarealism in yorùbá oríkìand omo oló kùn esin8. prying rebellious subaltern consciousness out of the clenched jaws of oral traditions: efúnsetán aníwúrà; 9. reiterating the black experience:rebellious material bodies and their textual fates in dessa rose; conclusion: what is the meaning of slave rebellion; notes; bibliography; index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784578603321 |
Adâeõáekõâo Adâelâeke | ||
Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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