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

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

By Ernest N. Emenyonu Copyright 2020
160 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko , in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo novel. Defining "Igbo literature" as literature in Igbo language, and "Igbo novel" as a novel written in Igbo language, the author argues that oral and written literature in... Read more

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 

Biography

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

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