From Colonial Disruption to Diasporic Entanglements
Narrating Igbo Identities in the Novels of Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chris Abani
| ISBN/EAN: | 9783868217919 |
|---|---|
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Umfang: | 224 |
| Einband: | gebundenes Buch |
Erschienen am
01.04.2019
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements .................................................................................. vii
1 Introduction .......................................................................................... 1
1.1 Literature Overview ........................................................................... 6
1.2 Aims and Outline of this Study ........................................................... 9
2 Postcolonial African Studies and Narrative Representations
of African Identities .................................................................................16
2.1 Poststructuralist Considerations in African Studies and the
Question of Identity ................................................................................17
2.2 Identity and/in (Literary) Narrative ....................................................26
3 A Way of Reading Representations of Identities
in Postcolonial Novels ............................................................................33
3.1 Postcolonial and Narratological Readings of Narrative ....................35
3.2 Concepts for a Narratologically Informed Close Reading
of Identities in African Postcolonial Novels .............................................40
4 Colonial Disruption and Narratives of Igbo Identity .............................51
4.1 Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958): Igbo Identity
as an Object of Ethnographic (Re)Construction ...................................58
4.2 Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God (1964): Igbo Identity
as an Object of Transformation and a Site of Contestation ..................68
4.3 Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease (1960): Igbo Identity
and the Emergence of a Nation ............................................................85
4.4 Temporality and Historicity as Means of Representational
Decolonisation .....................................................................................99
5 Narratives of Igbo Identity in Post-Independence States of Crisis ...102
5.1 Chris Abani’s GraceLand (2004): Igbo Tradition and the
Production of Cultural Subjects .........................................................106
5.2 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (2006):
The Igbo Nation as a Patchwork of Small Stories ..............................122
5.3 Fragmented Narrative Discourse as a Tool for Destabilising
Meaning ............................................................................................144
6 Narratives of Igbo Identity in the Contemporary
African American Diaspora ...............................................................148
6.1 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013):
Ethnic Igbo Identity at the Time of Global Migration ..........................152
6.2 Chris Abani’s The Virgin of Flames (2007):
Remembering Igbo Identity ...............................................................172
6.3 Spatial and Temporal Pluralisation as an Instrument of
De-centring Meaning ........................................................................183
7 Conclusion .....................................................................................187
Bibliography ......................................................................................193
