Eugenia Ossana

Nigerian Authors and the Me-Generation (eBook, ePUB)

New Shades of Black

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040313954
• Artikelnr.: 72538673

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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