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Nigerian Authors and the Me-Generation - New Shades of Black

English · Hardback

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It underscores Nigerian women authors' relatively unknown or dispersed role and acknowledges the emergence of a current Generation called the Me-Generation. Straddling the trope of blackness, three contemporary novels are analysed: My Sister, the Serial Killer, A Small Silence and Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi.


List of contents










Introduction

  1. Introduction to Nigerian Literature: First-, Second-, Third- and Me-Generations
  2. Of Ties and Lies: Aesthetic and Ethical Disruptions in My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
  3. Embracing Darkness and Silence: Alternative Tropes for Healing and Resistance in A Small Silence by Jumoke Verissimo
  4. Igbo Voices in Akwaeke Emezi's Freshwater
Conclusion
Index


About the author










Eugenia Ossana is currently a lecturer at the University of Zaragoza. She holds a PhD in Contemporary Nigerian Literature and an MA in Advanced English Studies in Contemporary Literature and Cinema and Secondary Education, both from the University of Zaragoza. She also has a Mass Media Production degree from the University of Córdoba in Argentina. Her main research interests include Global South and Decolonial theory, contemporary West African prose fiction, African-centred feminisms and eco-fiction, and African futurist narratives.


Summary

It underscores Nigerian women authors’ relatively unknown or dispersed role and acknowledges the emergence of a current Generation called the Me-Generation. Straddling the trope of blackness, three contemporary novels are analysed: My Sister, the Serial Killer, A Small Silence and Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi.

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