ISBN:
978-1-80073-250-6 (hardback)
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978-1-80073-319-0 (paperback)
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978-1-80073-251-3 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
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978-1-80073-251-3 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (238 Seiten)
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lIlustrationen
Keywords:
Nigeria Diaspora
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Literatur, afrikanische
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Literaturethnologie
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Roman, afrikanischer
Abstract:
Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers from Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Wole Soyinka to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Teju Cole have portrayed these Nigerian issues, and have also written about some of the momentous events in Nigerian history. Afropolitan Horizons discusses their work alongside other novelists and commentators, as well as describing the ways in which Nigeria has appeared in foreign news reporting. It is all interwoven with the author's own anthropological field research in a town in Central Nigeria. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Nigerian Connections -- Chapter 1. Palm Wine, Amos Tutuola, and a Literary Gatekeeper -- Chapter 2. Bahia-Lagos-Ouidah: Mariana's Story -- Chapter 3. Igbo Life, Past and Present: Three Views -- Chapter 4. Inland, Upriver with the Empire: Borrioboola-Gha -- Chapter 5. The City, according to Ekwensi…and Onuzo -- Chapter 6. Points of Cultural Geography: Ibadan…Enugu, Onitsha, Nsukka -- Chapter 7. Been-to: Dreams, Disappointments, Departures and Returns -- Chapter 8. Dateline Lagos: Reporting on Nigeria to the World -- Chapter 9. Death in Lagos -- Chapter 10. Tai Solarin: On Colonial Power, Schools, the Work Ethic, Religion and the Press -- Chapter 11. Wole Soyinka, Leo Frobenius and the Ori Olokun -- Chapter 12. A Voice from the Purdah: Baba of Karo -- Chapter 13. Bauchi: The Academic and the Imam -- Chapter 14. Railtown Writers -- Chapter 15. Nigeria at War -- Chapter 16. America Observed: With Nigerian Eyes -- Chapter 17. Transatlantic Shuttle -- Chapter 18. Sojourners from Black Britain -- Chapter 19. Oyotunji Village, South Carolina: Reverse Afropolitanism - Index
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