Long dreams in short chapters
Subtitle: essays in African postcolonial literary, cultural and political criticisms
By: Wumi Raji
Series: African languages - African literatures -- v. 2 = -- Langues africaines - littératures africaines -- v. 2; African languages, African literatures -- v. 2.
Publisher: Lit
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9783825818418
Subjects: African literature (English); History and criticism; Postcolonialism in literature; Postcolonialism; Civilization; Nigerian literature; African literature
Other titles: Essays in African postcolonial literary, cultural and political criticisms
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: -- I.; title: Postcolonial: The Literary -- -- 1.; title: Opera Wonyosi: Strategies of a Postcolonial Response to a Western Operatic Drama -- -- 2.; title: Dream Seeker and the Divining Chain: Preliminary Remarks on an African Dramatist of the Second Generation -- -- 3.; title: Looking Back/Looking Forward: Identity and Memory in African Fictions of Exile -- -- 4.; title: `The Present Position on the Present Condition of the Present Situation': a Study of Ken Saro-Wiwa's Selected Fictive Writings -- -- 5.; title: Theatre, Society and the Challenges of Amateur Production in Nigeria: A Review Critique of Akanji Nasiru's "Let's Find an Answer" -- -- 6.; title: Style and Postcolonial Respresentation in the Plays of Niyi Osundare -- -- 7.; title: Urban Dislocation and Post-colonial Transformation in the Plays of Femi Osofisan -- -- II.; title: The cultural, the political -- -- 8.; title: Oil Resources, Hegemonic Politics and the Struggle for Reinventing Postcolonial Nigeria.