The extroverted African novel and literary publishing in the twenty-first century.
This essay revisits Eileen Julien's seminal essay, ‘The Extroverted African Novel’ (2006), by way of twenty-first-century fiction by Nigerian writers. Since 2006, new Nigerian publishers have been publishing ambitious literary fiction that is arguably neither ‘extroverted’ nor ‘introverted’ but ‘mul...
| Published in: | Journal of African Cultural Studies Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 339 - 356 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2018
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