Stylistic Approaches to Nigerian Fiction

2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-26440-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 203 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 3747 g

Drawing on the discipline of stylistics, this book introduces a series of methodological tools and applies them to works by well-known Nigerian writers, including Abani, Adichie and Okri. In doing so, it demonstrates how attention to form fosters understanding of content in their work, as well as in African and postcolonial literatures more widely.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tunca, D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Towards an 'African Stylistics'? Historiographical and Methodological Considerations 2. Of Palm Oil and Wafers: Characterization in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus 3. 'The Other Half of the Sun': Ideology in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun 4. Art is a Journey: Metaphor in Ben Okri's The Landscapes Within and Dangerous Love 5. 'Bi-textual' Poetics: Investigating Form in Chris Abani's Becoming Abigail 6. Children at War: Language and Representation in Uzodinma Iweala's Beasts of No Nation and Chris Abani's Song for Night Conclusion Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daria Tunca works in the English Department of the University of Liège, Belgium. Her research focuses on stylistic approaches to African literatures, with a particular emphasis on contemporary Nigerian fiction.