Slavery, Death, and the Village: Localizing Imperatives of Nigerian Writing.
This article explores the ubiquitous citations of the village and the manifestation of villagers in Nigerian fiction published since about 2000. Through a close reading of Chuma Nwokolo's Diaries of a Dead African, I argue that Nwokolo's novel exemplifies the ongoing critical regionalism in Nigerian...
| Publicado en: | University of Toronto Quarterly Vol. 84; no. 4; pp. 131 - 153 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Fall2015
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