Hannerz, Ulf,

Afropolitan horizons : essays toward a literary anthropology of Nigeria / Ulf Hannerz. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2022. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Nigerian Connections -- Palm Wine, Amos Tutuola, and a Literary Gatekeeper -- Bahia-Lagos-Ouidah: Mariana's Story -- Igbo Life, Past and Present: Three Views -- Inland, Upriver with the Empire: Borrioboola-Gha -- The City, according to Ekwensi . . . and Onuzo -- Points of Cultural Geography: Ibadan . . . Enugu, Onitsha, Nsukka -- Been-To: Dreams, Disappointments, Departures, and Returns -- Dateline Lagos: Reporting on Nigeria to the World -- Death in Lagos -- Tai Solarin: On Colonial Power, Schools, Work Ethic, Religion, and the Press -- Wole Soyinka, Leo Frobenius, and the Ori Olokun -- A Voice from the Purdah: Baba of Karo -- Bauchi: The Academic and the Imam -- Railtown Writers -- Nigeria at War -- America Observed: With Nigerian Eyes -- Transatlantic Shuttle -- Sojourners from Black Britain -- Oyotunji Village, South Carolina: Reverse Afropolitanism.

"Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers from Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Wole Soyinka to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Teju Cole have portrayed these Nigerian issues, and have also written about some of the momentous events in Nigerian history. Afropolitan Horizons discusses their work alongside other novelists and commentators, as well as describing the ways in which Nigeria has appeared in foreign news reporting. It is all interwoven with the author's own anthropological field research in a town in Central Nigeria"--

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Nigerian fiction (English)--History and criticism.--20th century
Nigerian fiction (English)--History and criticism.--21st century
African diaspora in literature.
Roman nigérian (anglais)--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Roman nigérian (anglais)--Histoire et critique.--21e siècle
Africains--Pays étrangers, dans la littérature.
Literary Criticism / African.
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African Studies.
African diaspora in literature.
Literature.
Manners and customs.
Nigerian fiction (English)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural


Nigeria--In literature.
Nigeria--Social life and customs--20th century.
Nigeria--Social life and customs--21st century.
Nigeria.

PR9387 / .H366 2022