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Author: R.R. Bowker Company
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 1708
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Author: R.R. Bowker Company
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 1708
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Published: 1999-03
Total Pages: 1312
ISBN-13: 9780835240871
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 712
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 1400
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 1260
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 1104
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Publisher: R. R. Bowker
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780835243162
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Publisher: R. R. Bowker
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780835244312
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 864
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wendy Griswold
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-06-05
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 0691186308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreed, frustrated love, traffic jams, infertility, politics, polygamy. These--together with depictions of traditional village life and the impact of colonialism made familiar to Western readers through Chinua Achebe's writing--are the stuff of Nigerian fiction. Bearing Witness examines this varied content and the determined people who, against all odds, write, publish, sell, and read novels in Africa's most populous nation. Drawing on interviews with Nigeria's writers, publishers, booksellers, and readers, surveys, and a careful reading of close to 500 Nigerian novels--from lightweight romances to literary masterpieces--Wendy Griswold explores how global cultural flows and local conflicts meet in the production and reception of fiction. She argues that Nigerian readers and writers form a reading class that unabashedly believes in progress, rationality, and the slow-but-inevitable rise of a reading culture. But they do so within a society that does not support their assumptions and does not trust literature, making them modernists in a country that is simultaneously premodern and postmodern. Without privacy, reliable electricity, political freedom, or even social toleration of bookworms, these Nigerians write and read political satires, formula romances, war stories, complex gender fiction, blood-and-sex crime capers, nostalgic portraits of village life, and profound explorations of how decent people get by amid urban chaos. Bearing Witness is an inventive and moving work of cultural sociology that may be the most comprehensive sociological analysis of a literary system ever written.