Narrating the Nation in the African Novel : Chinua Achebe, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o,...

by Abdelkader Babkar

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Narrating the Nation in the African Novel : Chinua Achebe, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Ayi Kwei Armah and Kofi Awoonor, Paperback by Babkar, Abdelkader; Achebe, Chinua; Wa Thiong'o, Ngugi; Armah, Ayi Kwei; Awoonor, Kofi, ISBN 1511816007, ISBN-13 9781511816007, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The idea of the nation or nationalism in relation to Africa and African literature has been widely dealt with in modern African literature, arising from the fact that writers are bent on expressing their concern about the future of their countries. Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Kofi Awoonor are such writers who have made great artistic efforts to portray an Afrotopia, or at best viable socio-political systems in the wake of colonial present work aims to examine closely these novelists’ ideological convictions as they are expressed in their fictions and often shown to be in opposition to the practices established by the state apparatuses in book shows how the African situation has been characterised in the African novels by both a common continental experience and a number of facts that dramatise the historical predicament of slavery, colonialism and a problematic independence. These representations carry dialogical voices which underpin the authoritative voice of the authors. The narratives of the nation are shown to be ambivalent, for they seem to act in defence of the novelists’ culture, yet they jettison its very quintessence by the sceptical view they reflect abou

• Publisher: CreateSpace
• Year: 2016
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9781511816007
• Condition: Fine

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