Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Darah, G. G.

Description

1. xlvii, 342 p.; 22 cm.

Series statement

1. Malthouse critical titles

Uniform title

1. Malthouse critical titles.

Subject

1. Nigeria > Intellectual life
2. Nigerian literature > History and criticism
3. Folk literature, African > History and criticism

Contents

1. What has literature got to do with it? / Chinua Achebe -- The semiotics of class and gender struggle in pre-colonial narrative systems / Ropo Sekoni -- Myth and formation of social consciousness : the Bayajida of the Hausa / Maikudi Karaye -- Towards understanding Ndi Igbo and their cosmology / Ichie P.A. Ezikeojiaku -- "Once upon a kingdom-- " : Benin in the heroic traditions of Bendel State, Nigeria / Isidore Okpewho -- Principles of the Igbo oral epic : a study in traditional aesthetic and oral literary criticism / Chukwuma Azuonye -- Poetry of the Urhobo dance Udje / J.P. Clark -- Egalitarian ethos in Tiv folktales / Tar Ahura -- Social and ethical values of story-telling among the Berom of Plateau State / Abu Abarry -- Feminism and oral literature : the example of Igbo birth-songs / Afam Ebeogu -- Children's oral literature and socialization in Yoruba / Akinwumi Isola -- Literature and society in Lagos (late 19th to early 20th century) / Samuel Omo Asein -- Ideological orphanage : the intelligentsia and literary development in colonial Nigeria / G.G. Darah -- The songs and poems of the Satiru Revolt c. 1894-1906 / Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed -- Style and ideology in Fagunwa and Okediji / Karin Barber -- Abubakar Imam and the conservative conscience / Abba Aliyu Sani -- The life and works of Sa'adu Zungur / Dandatti Abdulkadir -- Twilight in the homestead : the drama of Ene Henshaw / Aderemi Bamikunle -- The impact of the newspaper and the cinema on the Onitsha Market literature / Emmanuel Obiechina -- Cultural imperialism and publishing in Northern Nigeria : 1903-1960 / Abba Aliyu Sani -- The indigenous publisher and the future of culture in Nigeria / Kole Omotoso -- Domestication of an opiate : western paraesthetics and growth of the Ekwensi tradition / Femi Osofisan -- The retrospective stage : some reflections on the mythopoeic tradition at Ibadan / Omafume F. Onoge and G.G. Darah.

Call number

1. Sc D 12-889

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Radical essays on Nigerian literatures / edited by G.G. Darah.

Imprint

1. Lagos, Nigeria : Malthouse Press, 2008.

Series

1. Malthouse critical titles
2. Malthouse critical titles.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Darah, G. G.

LCCN

1. 2009476066

ISBN

1. 9789780232542
2. 9780232540

Research call number

1. Sc D 12-889