Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project
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| Summary: | XXI, 286 p. 21 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022. |
| Series: | African Histories and Modernities,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01991-3 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
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?.