The idea of African fiction
Subtitle: essays in honour of professor Chima Anyadike
By: edited by Chijioke Uwasomba
Publisher: Obafemi Awolowo University Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9789781367229
Subjects: African literature; History and criticism; African fiction
Other titles: Essays in honour of professor Chima Anyadike
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From 'Heart of Darkness' to 'Africa Rising': Africa in the geopolitics of narratives / Adagbo Onoja; title: The African novel: The journey so far / Christopher Anyokwu; title: Upon the exiting of a devout critic: Whither the future of the African novel? / Morufu B. Omigbule; title: Migrants metaphor and postcolonial (dis) engagements: Rethinking the African domestic narratives in the AFrican literary imaginaries in the present past / Dele Marxwell Ugwuanyi; title: The intersection of class, gender and race in Buchi Emecheta's Second-Class Citizen / Olusegun Adekoya; title: Pre-war maladies as root cause of the loss of childhood innocence: A study of Emmanuel Jal's Soldier Memoir / Ademola Adesola; title: The irony of Ifemelunama in Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah / Victor S. Alumona; title: The quest for social transformation in Emmanuel Dongara's Photo du groupe au bord du fleure / Ajoke Mimiko Bestman; title: Disabling the deformed: A law-literature reading of Aminata Sow Fall's The Beggars' Strike / Uchenna Bethrand Anih; title: Body as capital: Construing experiential knowledge of prostitution and sex slavery in some postcolonial African novels / Ikenna Kamalu; title: The legacy of Chinua Achebe: Essays and politics / W. Alade Fawole; title: The dogs of history: Achebe and the crises of colonial humanism / Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba; title: Theorising third-generation Nigerian novels: Matters arising / Oluwole Coker; title: Elite collusion, crises of under-development and leadership failure in Adebayo Willians' novels / Chijioke Uwasomba; title: Abigbo-Mbaise dance poetry; Art, satire and performance / J.O.J. Nwachukwu-Agbada; title: From pen to pistol: The youths' downward journey on the shifting landscape of Nigeria's education and political economy nexus / Victor O. Okorie, Ndukaku Okorie & Lere Amusan; title: Interview section: "Our people still look up to their colonizers.... Unless we decolonize our minds, freedom is far"; title: Chima Anyadike in conversation with Ifeanyi Arua, Chijioke Uwasomba and Victor Alumona.