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Book Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project

Download or read book Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project written by Toyin Falola and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 By conducting literary analyses of Nigerian fiction with historical reference points, this work demonstrates how Nigerian literature can convey profound themes and knowledge that resonates with audiences, teaching Nigerians and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.

Book Nation  power and dissidence in third generation Nigerian poetry in English

Download or read book Nation power and dissidence in third generation Nigerian poetry in English written by E. Egya and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Nigerian Literature  Exploring Africa   s Vibrant Voices

Download or read book Nigerian Literature Exploring Africa s Vibrant Voices written by Young Akpasubi and published by Young Akpasubi. This book was released on 2023-06-10 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nigerian Literature: Exploring Africa’s Vibrant Voices" is a captivating and immersive journey into the world of Nigerian literature. With its vibrant prose and evocative descriptions, this book brings to life the diverse and compelling narratives that have emerged from the heart of Africa's literary landscape. Step into the pages of this book and embark on an exploration of Nigerian literature, a tapestry of stories, voices, and experiences that reflect the rich tapestry of Nigerian culture. From the oral traditions passed down through generations to the modern works of acclaimed authors, the book guides readers through the evolution and significance of Nigerian literary traditions. Through vivid storytelling and meticulous research, "Nigerian Literature" unravels the complexities and nuances of Nigerian society, shedding light on the historical, political, and cultural influences that have shaped Nigerian literature. From the impact of colonialism to the struggles for independence, from the quest for cultural identity to the challenges of postcolonial nation-building, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of the historical context in which Nigerian literature thrives. Immerse yourself in the vivid descriptions of Nigeria's landscapes, from the bustling streets of Lagos to the serene beauty of the Niger Delta and the vast savannahs of the north. Feel the pulse of Nigerian society as you explore the themes that resonate through its literature—identity, family, love, social justice, and the quest for meaning and belonging. Discover the iconic voices that have shaped Nigerian literature, from the trailblazing Chinua Achebe, whose seminal work "Things Fall Apart" brought African literature to the global stage, to the contemporary voices of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Helon Habila, and Ayobami Adebayo, whose works captivate readers with their lyrical prose and thought-provoking narratives. "Nigerian Literature" delves into the diverse genres that make up the Nigerian literary landscape, from the novel and poetry to the drama and oral traditions. Explore the richness of these literary forms and their ability to convey the complexities of Nigerian society, challenge dominant narratives, and inspire social change. But this book is more than just a literary exploration—it is a celebration of the power of storytelling and the resilience of the human spirit. It shines a light on the triumphs and struggles of Nigerians, amplifying voices that have often been marginalized and bringing attention to the social issues that shape their lives. Whether you are a literature enthusiast, a student, or simply curious about the vibrant narratives emerging from Nigeria, "Nigerian Literature: Exploring Africa’s Vibrant Voices" promises to captivate your imagination and expand your understanding of Nigerian culture and its profound contributions to the world of literature. Get ready to embark on a journey that will transport you to the heart of Nigeria's literary landscape, where the power of words knows no bounds.

Book Contemporary Nigerian Literature

Download or read book Contemporary Nigerian Literature written by Biodun Jeyifo and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eco critical Literature

Download or read book Eco critical Literature written by Ogaga Okuyade and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Grand Visions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Olagbenro Michael Oladipo
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2023
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Grand Visions written by Olagbenro Michael Oladipo and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, Grand Visions: Nationhood and Citizenship in Postcolonial Nigeria, investigates the postcolonial dynamics of citizenship and nation-building in Nigeria. In Grand Visions, I argue that Britain, Nigeria's colonizers, invented Nigeria to be a corporation, not a nation; and because of this, postcolonial Nigerian leaders have to devise malleable strategies to imagine a nation and constitute citizenship from the invention they inherited from Britain. One of those strategies, I argue, is the production and circulation of grand discourses of nationhood and belonging through investments in mega infrastructures and foreign policy interventions. This strategy enables Nigerian leaders to constitute a modern nation out of Nigeria and project it as the "hope of the black race" in the mind of Nigerians and the world. On the other hand, I examine discourses in vernacular spaces that Nigerians employ to (re)negotiate and resist their leaders' visions of the nation. Chapter One ("Building Babel...") and Chapter Two ("Conceptual Clarifications...") introduce the concepts and theories that underpin this project. In Chapter Three, "Giant of Africa...," I foreground how Nigeria leverages its geographic and demographic size to produce and circulate "mega rhetoric" of giantness and leadership of Nigeria as the destined leader of the black race. The chapter builds on scholarship in constitutive rhetoric to examine "constitutive visions" of nationhood in Nigeria's postcolonial foreign policy. By focusing on foreign policy, I extend the tools of constitutive rhetorical analysis to an often-ignored (in rhetorical studies) but commonplace domain of nation-building: foreign policy. Furthermore, by investigating the dynamics of national identity formation in postcolonial Nigeria, I propose a rethink of "constitutive invitation." I argue that identity-constituting discourses (such as foreign policy statements) in heterogenous societies like Nigeria are not always targeted at "subjects" with a "shared history, motives, and a telos," as it is often imagined by rhetorical scholars. Chapter Four, "Constitutive Development..." highlights the fascination with developmental rhetoric in postcolonial Nigeria and underscores how the desire to create a national identity often translates into grand visions of development and infrastructure. This chapter argues that development in postcolonial Nigeria is both a metaphor and material to suggest progress and modernity. The chapter builds on the analysis of the built environment and speeches from Nigerian leaders. Here, I conclude that built spaces are rhetorical, especially in the work of postcolonial nation-building and defining notions of citizenship, because they have the communicative power to trigger a social imaginary of the nation as one in people's minds-spaces have the power to make people believe that they are a part of something bigger. Chapter Five, "(Un)making the Giant...," investigates constitutive identification and disidentification. Specifically, it examines the alternative spaces (pirate radios, Internet, protest grounds, etc.) where citizens respond to and renegotiate state-owned narratives about what it means to be a Nigerian. Here, I analyze the rhetorical practices of Nigerians in alternative spaces to reveal how they are questioning and renegotiating state-owned notions of nationhood and citizenship. This chapter also highlights how the Nigerian State identifies individuals and groups that resist the dominant narratives of nationhood. This chapter ultimately argues that alternative spaces that are out of state control enable Nigerians to perform citizenship in their own way and resist government ideas of the nation. Ultimately, in Grand Vision, I make two contributions to rhetorical studies and citizenship studies. First, I extend the conversations on the need for rhetoricians to expand the breadth of the field by applying the tools of rhetoric to realities in non-western rhetorical traditions. Second, I note that for postcolonial societies like Nigeria with huge ethnic and geographic diversity, the process of defining citizenship and nation-building is a difficult one. Such a process often contradicts popular notions of citizenship and nation-building and relies on the plasticity of rhetoric. This plasticity, I conclude, affords postcolonial African states and their citizens opportunities to re/imagine notions of citizenship and nationhood.

Book Bearing Witness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wendy Griswold
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2000-06-19
  • ISBN : 9780691058290
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Bearing Witness written by Wendy Griswold and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-19 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greed, frustrated love, traffic jams, infertility, politics, polygamy. These--together with depictions of traditional village life and the impact of colonialism made familiar to Western readers through Chinua Achebe's writing--are the stuff of Nigerian fiction. Bearing Witness examines this varied content and the determined people who, against all odds, write, publish, sell, and read novels in Africa's most populous nation. Drawing on interviews with Nigeria's writers, publishers, booksellers, and readers, surveys, and a careful reading of close to 500 Nigerian novels--from lightweight romances to literary masterpieces--Wendy Griswold explores how global cultural flows and local conflicts meet in the production and reception of fiction. She argues that Nigerian readers and writers form a reading class that unabashedly believes in progress, rationality, and the slow-but-inevitable rise of a reading culture. But they do so within a society that does not support their assumptions and does not trust literature, making them modernists in a country that is simultaneously premodern and postmodern. Without privacy, reliable electricity, political freedom, or even social toleration of bookworms, these Nigerians write and read political satires, formula romances, war stories, complex gender fiction, blood-and-sex crime capers, nostalgic portraits of village life, and profound explorations of how decent people get by amid urban chaos. Bearing Witness is an inventive and moving work of cultural sociology that may be the most comprehensive sociological analysis of a literary system ever written.

Book Literature and Culture in Global Africa

Download or read book Literature and Culture in Global Africa written by Tanure Ojaide and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the idea of a ‘Global Africa’, this book examines how African literary and cultural productions have changed due to the social and political influences brought about by increased globalisation. A variety of European theoretical concepts are applied to Africa, demonstrating the universality of the African experience.

Book Introduction to Nigerian Literature

Download or read book Introduction to Nigerian Literature written by Bruce King and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1972 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nationalism in Okigbo s Poetry

Download or read book Nationalism in Okigbo s Poetry written by Dubem Okafor and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Protest and the Literary Imagination in Nigerian Novels

Download or read book Social Protest and the Literary Imagination in Nigerian Novels written by Niyi Akingbe and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is an examination of how selected Nigerian novelists have, through the literary imagination, used protest as a mode of expression necessary for assessing the relationship between art, ideology and social consciousness. This study examines the relationship of these three elements within the context of selected Nigerian novels dealing with a specific society struggling within difficult economic and socio-political circumstances. The analytical focus is on six primary texts, namely Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah (1987); Kole Omotoso's Just Before Dawn (1988); Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra (1982); Festus Iyayi's Violence (1979); Okey Ndibe's Arrows of Rain (2000) and Helon Habila's Waiting for an Angel (2002). The choice of these texts is informed by the fact that their thematic preoccupations and structural concerns are broadly similar. In these texts, the selected writers have attempted to chart a course of communal awareness and social reconstruction as they show concern for the socio-political issues prevalent in Nigeria. In essence, the study takes a close look at the nature of protest, its manifestation in literature and the novel.

Book Writing the Homeland

Download or read book Writing the Homeland written by Onookome Okome and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vision of the Post Colonial World in New Nigerian Fiction

Download or read book Vision of the Post Colonial World in New Nigerian Fiction written by Samia Hanif and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vision of The Post colonial World in New Nigerian Fiction analyses contemporary Nigerian fiction as a representative of its society. It offers a positive vision of post colonial Nigerian society, a society that should not be defined by century old stereotypical notions about Africans or Nigerians as uncivilized barbarians rather it should be defined as a nation that has a rich Culture, Literature, History, Religion, Languages and above all its people. It presents a promising Nigeria that finds its strength in its people who are ever ready to fight all odds and obstacles prevalent in their society. The book is based on theoretical analysis of selected contemporary Nigerian writers's works. The four areas discussed in the book are personal and the political, religion, gender and language. The writers included are Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Helon Habila, Sefi Atta and Chris Abani; all of whom present themselves as true inheritors of Nigerian Literary tradition and heirs to Nigerian literary giant Chinua Achebe.

Book Folklore in Nigerian Literature

Download or read book Folklore in Nigerian Literature written by Bernth Lindfors and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ordering the African Imagination

Download or read book Ordering the African Imagination written by Tanure Ojaide and published by Malthouse Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Literary Imaginations and Nation Building in Nigeria Since 1914

Download or read book Literary Imaginations and Nation Building in Nigeria Since 1914 written by Toyin Falola and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the text of the Keynote Address given by Professor Toyin Falola at the 32nd Intrenational Convention of the Association of Nigerian Authors on the 8th of November, 2013.

Book A Century of Nigerian Literature

Download or read book A Century of Nigerian Literature written by Kalu Ogbaa and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a groundbreaking new guide to Nigerian,literature including excellent, short,introductions to the major recent periods and,developments in Nigerian literary production and,comprehensive bibliographies of everything from,novels, poetry and drama to criticism and,children's literature. For both new and advanced,scholars of Nigerian literature, this work is,indispensable.