Nigerian Literary Imagination And The Nationhood Project

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031019913

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Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project by Toyin Falola Pdf

This book explores how modern Nigerian fiction is rooted in writers’ understanding of their identity and perception of Nigeria as a country and home. Surveying a broad range of authors and texts, the book shows how these fictionalized representations of Nigeria reveal authentic perceptions of Nigeria’s history and culture today. Many of the lessons in these works of literature provide cautionary tales and critiques of Nigeria, as well as an examination of the lasting impact of colonialism. Furthermore, the book presents the nation as both the framework and subject of its narrative. By conducting literary analyses of Nigerian fiction with historical reference points, this work demonstrates how Nigerian literature can convey profound themes and knowledge that resonates with audiences, teaching Nigerians and non-Nigerians about the colonial and postcolonial experience. The chapters cover topics on nationhood, women’s writing, postcolonial modernity, and Nigerian literature in the digital age.

Author : Biodun Jeyifo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Authors, Nigerian
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040635430

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Contemporary Nigerian Literature by Biodun Jeyifo Pdf

Author : E. Egya
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781920033453

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Nation, power and dissidence in third generation Nigerian poetry in English by E. Egya Pdf

Nation, Power and Dissidence in Third Generation Nigerian Poetry in English is a theoretical and analytical survey of the poetry that emerged in Nigeria in the 1980s. Hurt into poetry, the poets collectively raise aesthetics of resistance that dramatises the nationalist imagination bridging the gap between poetry and politics in Nigeria. The emerging generation of poetic voices raises an outcry against the repressive military regimes of the 1980s and 1990s. Ingrained in the tradition of protest literature in Africa, the third-generation poetry is presented here as part of the cultural struggles that unseat military despotism and envisage a democratic society.

Author : Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137560032

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Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature by Tanure Ojaide Pdf

Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflect the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people. Contemporary African literature captures the African experience in history and politics in a multiplicity of ways. Politics itself has come to intersect and impact on most, if not all, aspects of the African reality. This relationship of literature with African people’s lives and condition forms the setting of this study. Tanure Ojaide’s Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking belongs with a well-established tradition of personal reflections on literature by African creative writer-critics. Ojaide’s contribution brings to the table the perspective of what is now recognized as a “second generation” writer, a poet, and a concerned citizen of Nigeria’s Niger Delta area.

Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847010971

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Politics & Social Justice by Ernest Emenyo̲nu Pdf

This special issue focuses on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her 'original' or ancestral 'home' in Africa from other parts of the world. Ideas of return - intentional and actual - have been a consistent feature of the literature of Africa and the African diaspora: from Equiano's autobiography in 1789 to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 2013 novel 'Americanah'. African literature has represented returnees in a range of locations and dislocations including having a sense of belonging, being alienated in a country they can no longer recognize, or experiencing a multiple sense of place. Contributors, writing on literature from the 1970s to the present, examine the extent to which the original place can be reclaimed with or without renegotiations of 'home'. Articles on Nuruddin Farah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Pede Hollist, Ayi Kwei Amah, Dinaw Mengestu, Benjamin Kwakye. Interview with Tendai Huchu. Featured Articles by Bernth Lindfors, Eustace Palmer & Helen Chukwuma. Literary supplement : four poems by Tsitsi Ella Jaji .

Author : Ogaga Okuyade
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780979085888

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Eco-critical Literature by Ogaga Okuyade Pdf

Eco-Critical Literature: Regreening African Landscapescritically examines the representations, constructions, and imaginings of the relationship between the human and non-human worlds in contemporary African literature and culture. It offers innovative, incisive, and critical perspectives on the importance of sustaining a symbiotic relationship between humans and their environment. The book thus carries African scholarship beyond the mere analysis of themes and style to ethical and activist roles of literature having an impact on readers and the public. It is a scholarship geared towards rectifying ecological imbalance that is prevalent in many parts of the continent that forms the setting, context, and thematic discourse of the works or authors studied in this book. Besides sensitizing the African readership to the need for the restoration of harmony between man and the environment, this book equally aims to further familiarize scholars and students working on African literature and culture with the theoretical concerns of eco-criticism.

Author : Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351711197

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Literature and Culture in Global Africa by Tanure Ojaide Pdf

Engaging and interrogating the idea of a ‘Global Africa’, this book examines how African literary and cultural productions have changed over the years due to the social and political influences brought about by increased globalisation. Tanure Ojaide takes a variety of European theoretical concepts and applies these to African literature, oral traditions, culture, sexuality, political leadership, environmentalism, and advocacy, demonstrating the universality of the African experience. Challenging African literary artists and scholars to think creatively about the future of the culture and literature, this new collection of literary and cultural criticism from scholar-writer Tanure Ojaide is an essential read for students and scholars of African literature and culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1037118652

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Nigerian literature by Anonim Pdf

Discusses Nigerian literature in English and briefly refers to some indigenous language works by prominent Nigerian authors.

Author : Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015074220867

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Ordering the African Imagination by Tanure Ojaide Pdf

Tanure Ojaide is an award-winning writer, both creative and academic. This collection of his essays and lectures from over the past decade, addresses issues of culture and literature from a personal African perspective. The focus of this book is African culture and its imaginative productions in the arts, especially in literature. The author also examines the direction of African culture and its artistic creations in a global age. The titles of the essays and lectures are: the challenges of the African writer today; African culture and the New World Order; nativity and the creative process: the Niger Delta in my poetry; African culture today; divine mentoring in poetry and its performance; self, myth and historical consciousness: an African writer's reflection; Nigerian literature in the 21st century: what direction?; whose English?: the African writer and the language issue; countering terror in the literary world: the example of activism; and anxieties and hopes: recent African poetry. Tanure Ojaide's awards include the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Africa Region (1987), the All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry (1988, 1997), the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award (1988), and the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Award (1988, 1994, and 2003). He is also the recipient of the 2006 UNC Charlotte's First Citizens Bank Scholar Medal Award for his writing and academic accomplishments, and is a Fellow in Writing of the University of Iowa. He taught for many years at the University of Maiduguri, and is currently Professor of African-American and African Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he teaches African/Pan-African literature and art.

Author : Yemi D. Ogunyemi
Publisher : Gival PressLlc
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1928589227

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Literatures of the African Diaspora by Yemi D. Ogunyemi Pdf

In a very comprehensive volume, Dr. Ogunyemi traces the influences of African literature across the six continents of the world. This book offers one many wonders and will definitely change the way one thinks about the concept of a national literature.

Author : Toyin Falola,Emmanuel M. Mbah
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666944495

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Negotiating Identities in Contemporary Africa by Toyin Falola,Emmanuel M. Mbah Pdf

This edited volume provides an interdisciplinary and balanced discussion on the changing dynamics of identities in Africa, with a focus on gender, ethno-cultural, and religious identity.

Author : Toyin Falola,Ogechukwu Ezekwem
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847011442

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Writing the Nigeria-Biafra War by Toyin Falola,Ogechukwu Ezekwem Pdf

21 Female Participation in War and the Implication of Nationalism: The Postcolonial Disconnection in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra -- Select Bibliography -- Index

Author : David Ekanem Udoinwang,James Tar Tsaaior
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000632866

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Autobiography, Memory and Nationhood in Anglophone Africa by David Ekanem Udoinwang,James Tar Tsaaior Pdf

This book provides an important critical analysis of the autobiographies of nine major leaders of national liberation movements in Africa. By examining their self-narratives, we can better understand how decolonisation unfolded and how activist-politicians sought to immortalise their roles for posterity. Focusing on the autobiographies of Peter Abrahams, Albert Luthuli, Ruth First and Nelson Mandela (South Africa), Nnamdi Azikiwe (Nigeria), Kenneth Kaunda (Zambia), George Mwase (Malawi), Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), Maurice Nyagumbo (Zimbabwe), and Oginga Odinga (Kenya), the book uncovers the social and cultural forces which galvanized the anti-colonial resistance movement in African societies. In particular, the book explores the disdain for foreign domination, economic exploitation and cultural imperialism. It delves into themes of African cultural sovereignty before the colonial encounter, the disruptive presence of colonialism, the nationalist ferment against European imperial domination, the achievement of political autonomy by African nation-states and the corpus of contradictions which attended postcolonial becoming. With important insights on how these key historical figures navigated the process of self-determining nationhood in Africa, this book will be of interest to researchers of African literature, history, and politics.

Author : Christopher Okigbo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Nigerian poetry (English)
ISBN : IND:39000003777831

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Heavensgate by Christopher Okigbo Pdf

Author : Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108840767

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A History of the Republic of Biafra by Samuel Fury Childs Daly Pdf

An accessible study demonstrating how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country's long experience of crime.