Afropolitan Horizons

Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80073-250-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 501 g

Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers from Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Wole Soyinka to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Teju Cole have portrayed these Nigerian issues, and have also written about some of the momentous events in Nigerian history. Afropolitan Horizons discusses their work alongside other novelists and commentators, as well as describing the ways in which Nigeria has appeared in foreign news reporting. It is all interwoven with the author’s own anthropological field research in a town in Central Nigeria.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hannerz, Ulf

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Nigerian Connections

Chapter 1. Palm Wine, Amos Tutuola, and a Literary Gatekeeper

Chapter 2. Bahia-Lagos-Ouidah: Mariana’s Story

Chapter 3. Igbo Life, Past and Present: Three Views

Chapter 4. Inland, Upriver with the Empire: Borrioboola-Gha

Chapter 5. The City, according to Ekwensi…and Onuzo

Chapter 6. Points of Cultural Geography: Ibadan…Enugu, Onitsha, Nsukka

Chapter 7. Been-to: Dreams, Disappointments, Departures and Returns

Chapter 8. Dateline Lagos: Reporting on Nigeria to the World

Chapter 9. Death in Lagos

Chapter 10. Tai Solarin: On Colonial Power, Schools, the Work Ethic, Religion and the Press

Chapter 11. Wole Soyinka, Leo Frobenius and the Ori Olokun

Chapter 12. A Voice from the Purdah: Baba of Karo

Chapter 13. Bauchi: The Academic and the Imam

Chapter 14. Railtown Writers

Chapter 15. Nigeria at War

Chapter 16. America Observed: With Nigerian Eyes

Chapter 17. Transatlantic Shuttle

Chapter 18. Sojourners from Black Britain

Chapter 19. Oyotunji Village, South Carolina: Reverse Afropolitanism

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hannerz, Ulf
Ulf Hannerz is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, and has taught at several American, European and Australian universities. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former Chair of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.

Ulf Hannerz is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, and has taught at several American, European and Australian universities. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former Chair of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.