Toyin Falola

Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783031019913
• Artikelnr.: 64349256

Autorenporträt

Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is a recipient of many distinguished awards, including 16 honorary doctorates.

Inhaltsangabe

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?.

Rezensionen

Toyin Falola s Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project is a latest heading in the edited series of African Histories and Modernities. In the 286-page book, Nigeria-born Professor Falola offers a panoptic vista into multiple encounters in Literature and literary studies in Nigeria . Very creatively, it also uniquely provides its readers with a scope of themes and thought-lines that are connected ... . That the Nigerian literary imaginary is an ebullient burst of artistic prolificacy ... . (Abiodun Bello, African and Asian Studies, Vol. 24 (3), 2025)