Narrating the New African Diaspora 21st Century Nigerian Literature in Context /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Feldner, Maximilian (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: African Histories and Modernities
• Θέματα: African literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Literature .; African Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; Postcolonial/World Literature.

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,...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Contexts: New African Diaspora, Nigerian Literature, and the Global Literary Market
• 3. Biafra and Nigerian Identity Formation in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)
• 4. City of Stories: The Lagos Imaginary in Chris Abani's GraceLand (2004) and Sefi Atta's Swallow (2010)
• 5.The Prison of 1990s Nigeria: Helon Habila's Waiting for an Angel (2002)
• 6. Leaving Nigeria: Ike Oguine, Sefi Atta, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• 7. Exploring the Limitations of Afropolitanism in Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go (2013)
• 8. Second Generation Nigerians in England: Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl (2005) and the Negative Experience of Hybridity
• 9. Returning to Nigeria: Teju Cole's Every Day is for the Thief (2007) and Sefi Atta's Everything Good Will Come (2008)
• 10. Return Migration in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah (2013).-11. Conclusion.