Ogunyemi Christopher Babatunde, Yanqing Zhang Zhang and Okoko Anthony Chinedu redefined Literature and National Development within narratological perspective. The work encapsulates salient themes in post-colonial China and Nigeria with passing references to Harlem and Negritude literature. Chapter one examines Ch'ien Chung-Shu who is ranked among the foremost twentieth-century Chinese novelists, and his first and only novel Wei-Ch'eng (Fortress Besieged) published in 1947 is one of the greatest twentieth-century Chinese novels., has been acclaimed as "one of modern China's two best novels," or her "greatest novel." Chapter two visualizes the search for cultural, spiritual identity and the image of the White man on the blacks in their respective ghettos were the motivating factors that led to the Harlem Renaissance. The African Americans knew that so long as their cultural identity was in question, so long can there be no positive identification with the real demands of their political and economic existence.Chapter three probes into narrative mobility as regards Achebe's canon. African fiction has been very much influenced by culture, politics and globalization.......

Christopher Ogunyemi conceptualizes the theory of narratology in the understanding of Irish fiction, Nigerian fiction and African American fiction. Chapter one attempts the science of fiction to explain the plight of the Irish ex-service men. McGahern in Amongst Women creates a former soldier Moran who fights gallantly in the war with his friend McQuaid. The story actually started after the war. Although the war had ended, for Moran the male protagonist, the war had not ended. He had to battle poverty and nothingness which had mostly preoccupied the experiences of ex -servicemen after the war. Moran was upright; he went into farming to save the family and his efforts were able to see the family through the huddles of hunger. Chapter two x-rays Wisdom and Age in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. The combination of Autobiographical and methodological approaches make the work wisdom coded. Chapter three, however, uses narratology to clarify the theme of violence in African American literature with a comparative analysis of James Baldwin's Fire Next Time and Richard Wright's The Man Who Killed a Shadow. The role of irony, metaphor, and other literary elements were highly emphasized.

The construction of male metaphors in autobiographical narratives written by male authors is what the research work celebrates.The book blends theory with tradition in delineating levels of gender imperatives and degree of rejection and relegation women suffer in all aspects of literary and sociological ethos in Nigeria. Narratology and autobiographical approaches have constituted the onus of the project because the works employs these literary instruments in xraying architectonic and rhizomic pattern of discourse on the works and on the opinions of the respondents. The work postulates the need for total elimination of gender feelings and the need for empowerment of women culturally, politically, economically and in all ramifications. The place of human beings in society is what the work attempts to re-establish.

This work visualizes a comparative theory in conceptualizing the issue of global interest in some selected world literatures of Ireland, Nigeria, Sweden and India. It evokes the theory of narratology with specific anchor on the science of the narrative which underscores and envisages the research work. It probes succinctly into a disarm sensitivity common problems of man, these problems were highlighted in a brief and concise manner in order to reshape the need for global interest. This research enables more understanding about English language and its socio-cultural implications with China, Korea and Japan. The work, however, apply theory with traditional models by combining all of science, literature and global perspectives in a society that is riddled with inevitable change.