Critical Perspectives on Nigerian Literatures

Critical Perspectives on Nigerian Literatures

Author: Bernth Lindfors

Publisher: Three Continents

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780914478270

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Nigeria is endowed with oral and written literatures in a variety of languages. This collection focuses on work in the three major vernacular languages - Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa - as well as on the important authors writing in English.


Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka

Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka

Author: Wole Soyinka

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780914478492

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Distinguished scholars analyze the plays, poetry, and prose of Wole Smoyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. Essays trace his career and place his work in the general context of African literature.


Critical Perspectives on Christopher Okigbo

Critical Perspectives on Christopher Okigbo

Author: Donatus Ibe Nwoga

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780894102585

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A collection of essays and reviews, both favourable and negative, about the Igbo poet. The book begins with a memorial essay by Chinua Achebe. Other contributors examine the imagery that Okigbo drew from nature, history and politics, exploring the surrealistic qualities of his work.


Emerging Perspectives on Chinua Achebe

Emerging Perspectives on Chinua Achebe

Author: Ernest Emenyo̲nu

Publisher: Africa World Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 9780865438767

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This compendium of 37 essays provides global perspectives of Achebe as an artist with a proper sense of history and an imaginative writer with an inviolable sense of cultural mission and political commitment.


Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe

Author: Catherine Lynette Innes

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-03-26

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780521428972

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"Things fall Apart", is compared with Joyce Cary's "Mister Johnson". Achebe's novel is seen as a more realistic portrayal of the society and culture of indigenous people of Nigeria.


Goatskin Bags and Wisdom

Goatskin Bags and Wisdom

Author: Ernest Emenyo̲nu

Publisher: Africa Research and Publications

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13:

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"Among the contributors are a new generation of young African writers whose studies include the works of a number of established and emerging African Writers about whom there is little criticism now in existence."--BOOK JACKET.


Nigerian Female Writers

Nigerian Female Writers

Author: Henrietta C. Otokunefor

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13:

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Fifteen contributors from Nigerian universities write on twenty Nigerian women writers. The aim of the editors was to bring into focus the literary contribution of Nigerian women writers up to the present. The writers are grouped into four broad categories: novelists, dramatists, poets, and the children's literature writers. They include the well-known writers, such as Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta and Adaora Ulasi; but also relatively unknown female writers who have contributed to the development of Nigerian literature. The book includes a short biography on each writer; a list of her publications; words about her and a critical analysis of her works.