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Narrating the New African Diaspora: 21st Century Nigerian Literature in Context: African Histories and Modernities

Autor Maximilian Feldner
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 feb 2019
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, their literature captures experiences of recent Nigerian migration to the United States and the United Kingdom. Examining representative novels, such as Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah, Habila’s Waiting for an Angel, Abani’s GraceLand, and Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl, the book discusses these novels’ literary and narrative methods and provides detailed analyses of two of the most common themes: depictions of migratory experiences and representations of Nigeria. Placing the novels in their relevant historical, sociological, philosophical, and theoretical contexts, Narrating the New African Diaspora presents an insightful study of current anglophone Nigerian narrative literature.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030057428
ISBN-10: 3030057429
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: VI, 212 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2019
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria African Histories and Modernities

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

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.

Notă biografică

Maximilian Feldner is Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Graz, Austria.

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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, their literature captures experiences of recent Nigerian migration to the United States and the United Kingdom. Examining representative novels, such as Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah, Habila’s Waiting for an Angel, Abani’s GraceLand, and Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl, the book discusses these novels’ literary and narrative methods and provides detailed analyses of two of the most common themes: depictions of migratory experiences and representations of Nigeria. Placing the novels in their relevant historical, sociological, philosophical, and theoretical contexts, Narrating the New African Diaspora presents an insightful study of current anglophone Nigerian narrative literature.

Caracteristici

Constitutes a survey of contemporary Nigerian literature in context Offers readings of texts by key writers such as Adichie, Habila and Abani Analyses depictions of migratory experiences