Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Global Specters: Child Soldiers in the Post-National Fiction of Uzodinma Iweala and Chris Abani (Alexandra Schultheis)
Chapter 2: “Breaking Gods”: The Narrator as Revelator and Critic of the Postcolonial Condition in Purple Hibiscus (Pauline Ada Uwakweh)
Chapter 3: Negotiating Nigeria: Connecting Chris Abani’s GraceLand to Africa’s Past (Veronica C. Hendrick)
Chapter 4: Fatou Diome’s Black Atlantic: Re-inscribing Anti-Imperialism (Katherine Farley Galvagni)
Chapter 5: Helon Habila’s Neoliberal Nigeria: Free Markets and Subordinate Cultures in Waiting for an Angel (David Cockley)
Chapter 6: The Novel Architecture of Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow (Timothy Johns)
Chapter 7: The Allegory of Self and Other in Soyinka’s The Lion and The Jewel and Kunle Okesipe’s Professor’s Last Death (Akinola Oriola)
Chapter 8: Ogaga Ifowodo and the Oral Tradition: An Analysis of Form and Socio-political Issues in Madiba (Dik Okoro)
Chapter 9: Fresh “Cultural Critiques”: The Ethnographic Fabulations of Adichie and Oyeyemi (R. Victoria Arana)
Notes
Contributors
Index
