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Author Hannerz, Ulf, author

Title Afropolitan horizons : essays toward a literary anthropology of Nigeria / Ulf Hannerz
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2022

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Contents Introduction. Nigerian Connections -- Palm Wine, Amos Tutuola, and a Literary Gatekeeper -- Bahia-Lagos-Ouidah: Mariana's Story -- Igbo Life, Past and Present: Three Views -- Inland, Upriver with the Empire: Borrioboola-Gha -- The City, according to Ekwensi . . . and Onuzo -- Points of Cultural Geography: Ibadan . . . Enugu, Onitsha, Nsukka -- Been-To: Dreams, Disappointments, Departures, and Returns -- Dateline Lagos: Reporting on Nigeria to the World -- Death in Lagos -- Tai Solarin: On Colonial Power, Schools, Work Ethic, Religion, and the Press -- Wole Soyinka, Leo Frobenius, and the Ori Olokun -- A Voice from the Purdah: Baba of Karo -- Bauchi: The Academic and the Imam -- Railtown Writers -- Nigeria at War -- America Observed: With Nigerian Eyes -- Transatlantic Shuttle -- Sojourners from Black Britain -- Oyotunji Village, South Carolina: Reverse Afropolitanism
Summary "Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers from Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Wole Soyinka to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Teju Cole have portrayed these Nigerian issues, and have also written about some of the momentous events in Nigerian history. Afropolitan Horizons discusses their work alongside other novelists and commentators, as well as describing the ways in which Nigeria has appeared in foreign news reporting. It is all interwoven with the author's own anthropological field research in a town in Central Nigeria"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Nigerian fiction (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Nigerian fiction (English) -- 21st century -- History and criticism
African diaspora in literature.
Literary Criticism / African.
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
African diaspora in literature
Literature
Manners and customs
Nigerian fiction (English)
SUBJECT Nigeria -- In literature
Nigeria -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Nigeria -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
Subject Nigeria
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021039746
ISBN 9781800732513
1800732511