The Literary History of the Igbo Novel: African Literature in African Languages

ISBN-13: 9781032174792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 160 str.

Ernest N. Emenyonu

Opis

This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo Novel from its antecedents in oral and performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo novel.

Spis treści

1. The Need for a Literary History  2. Igbo Literary Origins  3. Minstrelsy in Traditional Igbo Society: Remembering a Pioneer Legend—Israel Nwaọba Njemanze (Alias Israel Nwaọba)  4. From Voice to Text: Missionary Influence on the Development of Igbo Orthography and Written Igbo Literature  5. Early Fiction in Igbo—The Pioneers  6. The Crisis of Standardization of Written (Literary) Igbo Language: Pioneer Efforts of F.C. Ogbalu: Founder and Architect, Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture (SPILC)  7. On the Threshold of Another Blackout: A New Controversy over the Standardization of Written (Literary) Igbo  8. Chinua Achebe and the Problematics of Writing in Indigenous Nigerian Languages: Towards a Resolution of the Igbo Language Predicament  9. The Female Voice—Rebuttal and Response to Patriarchy: Julie Onwuchekwa’s Chinaagọrọm (1983)  10. Tony Uchenna Ubesie: The Quintessential Igbo Novelist  11. Interviews with Two Major Igbo Novelists: J.U.T Nzeako and Chinedu Ofomata 

O autorze

Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan–Flint, USA.