Nigeria's third-generation literature : content and form / / Ode Ogede

• Autore: Ogede Ode
• Pubblicazione: Oxon, UK ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , [2023]; ©2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 pages)
• Disciplina: 820.9/9669
• Soggetto topico: Nigerian fiction (English) - History and criticism; Postcolonialism in literature
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Nigeria's third-generation 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: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910774609103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Studies in African Literature