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Nigeria's Third-Generation Literature - Content and Form (Hardcover)
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Nigeria's Third-Generation Literature - Content and Form (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in African Literature
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This book considers the evolution and characteristics of Nigeria's
third-generation literature, which emerged between the late 1980s
and the early 1990s and is marked by expressive modes and concerns
distinctly different from those of the preceding era. The creative
writing of this period reflects new sensibilities and anxieties
about Nigeria's changing fortunes in the post-colonial era. The
literature of the third generation is startling in its candidness,
irreverence as well as the brutal self-disclosure of its
characters, and it is governed by an unusually wide-ranging sweep
in narrative techniques. This book examines six key texts of the
oeuvre: Maria Ajima's The Web, Okey Ndibe's Foreign Gods, Inc.,
Teju Cole's Open City, Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters Street, Lola
Shoneyin's The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, and Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck. The texts interpret
contemporary corruption and other unspeakable social malaise;
together, they point to the exciting future of Nigerian literature,
which has always been defined by its daring creativity and
inventive expressive modes. Even conventional storytelling
strategies receive revitalizing energies in these angst-driven
narratives. This book will be of interest to students and
researchers of contemporary African literature, Sociology, Gender
and women's studies, and post-colonial cultural expression more
broadly.
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