Stylistic Approaches To Nigerian Fiction

Author : D. Tunca
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137264411

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Stylistic Approaches to Nigerian Fiction by D. Tunca Pdf

Drawing on the discipline of stylistics, this book introduces a series of methodological tools and applies them to works by well-known Nigerian writers, including Abani, Adichie and Okri. In doing so, it demonstrates how attention to form fosters understanding of content in their work, as well as in African and postcolonial literatures more widely.

Author : D. Tunca
Publisher : Springer
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137264411

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Stylistic Approaches to Nigerian Fiction by D. Tunca Pdf

Drawing on the discipline of stylistics, this book introduces a series of methodological tools and applies them to works by well-known Nigerian writers, including Abani, Adichie and Okri. In doing so, it demonstrates how attention to form fosters understanding of content in their work, as well as in African and postcolonial literatures more widely.

Author : Aboh, Romanus
Publisher : NISC (Pty) Ltd
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781920033293

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Language and the Construction of Multiple Identities in the Nigerian Novel by Aboh, Romanus Pdf

Language and the construction of multiple identities in the Nigerian novel examines the multifaceted relation between people and the various identities they construct for themselves and for others through the context-specific ways they use language. Specifically, this book pays attention to how forms of identities – ethnic, cultural, national and gender – are constructed through the use of language in select novels of Adichie, Atta and Betiang. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book draws analytical insights from critical discourse analysis, literary discourse analysis and socio-ethno-linguistic analysis. This approach enables the author to engage with the novels, to illuminate the link between the ways Nigerians use language and the identities they construct. Being a context-driven analysis, this book critically scrutinises literary language beyond stylistic borders by interrogating the micro and macro levels of language use, a core analytical paradigm frequently used by discourse analysts who engage in critical discourse analysis.

Author : Romanus Aboh
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781920033347

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Language and the Construction of Multiple Identities in the Nigerian Novel by Romanus Aboh Pdf

Language and the construction of multiple identities in the Nigerian novel examines the multifaceted relation between people and the various identities they construct for themselves and for others through the context-specific ways they use language. Specifically, this book pays attention to how forms of identities ethnic, cultural, national and gender are constructed through the use of language in select novels of Adichie, Atta and Betiang. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book draws analytical insights from critical discourse analysis, literary discourse analysis and socio-ethno-linguistic analysis. This approach enables the author to engage with the novels, to illuminate the link between the ways Nigerians use language and the identities they construct. Being a context-driven analysis, this book critically scrutinises literary language beyond stylistic borders by interrogating the micro and macro levels of language use, a core analytical paradigm frequently used by discourse analysts who engage in critical discourse analysis.

Author : Patrick O'Donnell,Stephen J. Burn,Lesley Larkin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1607 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119431718

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The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 2 Volumes by Patrick O'Donnell,Stephen J. Burn,Lesley Larkin Pdf

Fresh perspectives and eye-opening discussions of contemporary American fiction In The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020, a team of distinguished scholars delivers a focused and in-depth collection of essays on some of the most significant and influential authors and literary subjects of the last four decades. Cutting-edge entries from established and new voices discuss subjects as varied as multiculturalism, contemporary regionalisms, realism after poststructuralism, indigenous narratives, globalism, and big data in the context of American fiction from the last 40 years. The Encyclopedia provides an overview of American fiction at the turn of the millennium as well as a vision of what may come. It perfectly balances analysis, summary, and critique for an illuminating treatment of the subject matter. This collection also includes: An exciting mix of established and emerging contributors from around the world discussing central and cutting-edge topics in American fiction studies Focused, critical explorations of authors and subjects of critical importance to American fiction Topics that reflect the energies and tendencies of contemporary American fiction from the forty years between 1980 and 2020 The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020 is a must-have resource for undergraduate and graduate students of American literature, English, creative writing, and fiction studies. It will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars seeking an authoritative array of contributions on both established and newer authors of contemporary fiction.

Author : Emmanuel Ngara
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015011038596

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Stylistic Criticism and the African Novel by Emmanuel Ngara Pdf

Author : Bénédicte Ledent,Evelyn O'Callaghan,Daria Tunca
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319981802

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Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature by Bénédicte Ledent,Evelyn O'Callaghan,Daria Tunca Pdf

This collection takes as its starting point the ubiquitous representation of various forms of mental illness, breakdown and psychopathology in Caribbean writing, and the fact that this topic has been relatively neglected in criticism, especially in Anglophone texts, apart from the scholarship devoted to Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). The contributions to this volume demonstrate that much remains to be done in rethinking the trope of “madness” across Caribbean literature by local and diaspora writers. This book asks how focusing on literary manifestations of apparent mental aberration can extend our understanding of Caribbean narrative and culture, and can help us to interrogate the norms that have been used to categorize art from the region, as well as the boundaries between notions of rationality, transcendence and insanity across cultures.

Author : Rebecca Romdhani,Daria Tunca
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000433210

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Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World by Rebecca Romdhani,Daria Tunca Pdf

This book examines representations of violence across the postcolonial world—from the Americas to Australia—in novels, short stories, plays, and films. The chapters move from what appear to be interpersonal instances of violence to communal conflicts such as civil war, showing how these acts of violence are specifically rooted in colonial forms of abuse and oppression but constantly move and morph. Taking its cue from theories in such fields as postcolonial, violence, gender, and trauma studies, the book thus shows that violence is slippery in form, but also fluid in nature, so that one must trace its movement across time and space to understand even a single instance of it. When analysing such forms and trajectories of violence in postcolonial creative writing and films, the contributors critically examine the ethical issues involved in narrating abuse, depicting violated bodies, and presenting romanticized resolutions that may conceal other forms of violence.

Author : Lokangaka Losambe,Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040013984

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The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature by Lokangaka Losambe,Tanure Ojaide Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. Covering works produced in Europe, North America, and elsewhere in the world, this book investigates three major aesthetic paradigms in African diasporic literature: the Sankofan wave (late 1960s–early 1990s); the Janusian wave (1990s–2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants (those born and growing up outside Africa). Written by well-established and emerging scholars of African and diasporic literatures from across the world, the chapters in the book cover the works of well-known and not-so-well-known Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone writers from different theoretical positionalities and critical approaches, pointing out the unique innovative artistic qualities of this major subgenre of African literature. The focus on the “diasporic consciousness” of the writers and their works sets this handbook apart from others that solely emphasize migration, which is more of a process than the community of settled African people involved in the dynamic acts of living reflected in diasporic writings. This book will appeal to researchers and students from across the fields of Literature, Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Migration Studies, and Postcolonial Studies.

Author : Christopher E. W. Ouma
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030362560

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Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature by Christopher E. W. Ouma Pdf

This book examines the representation of figures, memories and images of childhood in selected contemporary diasporic African fiction by Adichie, Abani, Wainaina and Oyeyemi. The book argues that childhood is a key framework for thinking about contemporary African and African Diasporic identities. It argues that through the privileging of childhood memory, alternative conceptions of time emerge in this literature, and which allow African writers to re-imagine what family, ethnicity, nation means within the new spaces of diaspora that a majority of them occupy. The book therefore looks at the connections between childhood, space, time and memory, childhood gender and sexuality, childhoods in contexts of war, as well as migrant childhoods. These dimensions of childhood particularly relate to the return of the memory of Biafra, the figures of child soldiers, memories of growing up in Cold War Africa, queer boyhoods/sonhood as well as experiences of migration within Africa, North America and Europe.

Author : Izuu Nwankwọ
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783838216089

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Stand-up Comedy in Africa by Izuu Nwankwọ Pdf

African cultural productions of humour have increased even in the face of myriad economic foibles and social upheavals. For instance, from the 1990s, stand-up comedy emerged across the continent and has maintained a pervasive presence since then. Its specificities are related to contemporary economic and political contexts and are also drawn from its pre-colonial history, that of joking forms and relationships, and orality. Izuu Nwankwọ's fascinating collected volume offers a transnational appraisal of this unique art form spanning different nations of the continent and its diasporas. The book engages variously with jokesters, their materials, the mediums of dissemination, and the cultural value(s) and relevance of their stage work, encompassing the form and content of the practice. Its ruling theoretical perspective comes from theatre and performance, cultural studies, linguistics, and literary studies.

Author : Daria Tunca,Janet Wilson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004337688

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Postcolonial Gateways and Walls by Daria Tunca,Janet Wilson Pdf

This collection of essays focuses on the evocative figures of the ‘gateway’ and the ‘wall’ – both literal and metaphorical – to reflect on the state of postcolonial studies, a dynamic discipline that may itself be seen as permanently ‘under construction’.

Author : Gordon Collier,Geoffrey V. Davis,Marc Delrez,Bénédicte Ledent
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004338081

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The Cross-Cultural Legacy by Gordon Collier,Geoffrey V. Davis,Marc Delrez,Bénédicte Ledent Pdf

Contributions on various areas of postcolonial literature, including the work of Wilson Harris, the ground-breaking writer to whom the influential university teacher and literary critic Hena Maes–Jelinek devoted much of her career.

Author : Maximilian Feldner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030057435

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Narrating the New African Diaspora by Maximilian Feldner Pdf

This book provides the first comprehensive survey and collection of Nigerian diaspora literature, offering readings of novelists such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sefi Atta, Helon Habila, Helen Oyeyemi, Taiye Selasi, Chika Unigwe, Chris Abani, and Ike Oguine. As members of the new African diaspora, their literature captures experiences of recent Nigerian migration to the United States and the United Kingdom. Examining representative novels, such as Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah, Habila’s Waiting for an Angel, Abani’s GraceLand, and Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl, the book discusses these novels’ literary and narrative methods and provides detailed analyses of two of the most common themes: depictions of migratory experiences and representations of Nigeria. Placing the novels in their relevant historical, sociological, philosophical, and theoretical contexts, Narrating the New African Diaspora presents an insightful study of current anglophone Nigerian narrative literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004464315

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Nationalism and the Postcolonial by Anonim Pdf

The contributions in Nationalism and the Postcolonial examine forms, representations, and consequences of ubiquitous nationalisms in languages, popular culture, and literature across the globe from the perspectives of linguistics, political science, cultural studies, and literary studies.