Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Principal: Falola, Toyin (Author)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:XXI, 286 p. 21 illus.
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Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Edición:1st ed. 2022.
Series:African Histories and Modernities,
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Acceso en liña:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01991-3
Formato: Electrónico Libro
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction: Nation as Fiction/Fictionalizing the Nation
  • PART I: COLONIAL PHASE
  • 2 Literature and the colonized nation
  • 3 Literary Founding Fathers and ideas of Nationhood
  • 4 Women writers and the (Post)colony: (Writing) The Colony in Nigerian Women’s Works
  • PART II: POST-COLONIAL PHASE
  • 5 Postcolonial Modernity and Literary Imagination
  • 6 Contemporary Women Writers and the Representations of Postcolonial Nigeria
  • 7 Literature and Nigeria in the Digital Age
  • PART III: CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
  • 8 Shifts and Ambiguities: Unstable Literature or Unstable Nation?.