No Condition is Permanent

Nigerian Writing and the Struggle for Democracy
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-420-1486-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 23-24, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Matatu

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ehling, Holger G.

Holste-von Mutius, Claus-Peter

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction:

Holger EHLING & Claus-Peter HOLSTE-VON MUTIUS: Nigerian Writing and the Struggle for Democracy.
Articles:

Craig W. MCLUCKIE: Literary Memoirs of the Nigerian Civil War.
Werner SEDLAK: Soyinka’s Cultural Activism: Representations of Detention in Madmen and Specialists, The Detainee, Season of Anomy and The Man Died.
Onookome OKOME: The Social Crusade of Wole Soyinka.
Willfried F. FEUSER: “Nothing Puzzles God!” Chinua Achebe’s Civil War Stories.
Bode SOWANDE: The Metaphysics of Abiku: A Literary Heritage in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road.
Niyi OSUNDARE: From the Closet to the Marketplace: Popular Poetry and the Democratic Space in Nigeria.
Thomas R KNIPP: Gabriel Okara: The Poet as Lonely African.
Marketplace:

Olatunji DARE: The Press and Politics in Nigeria since 1960.
Lai OSO: The Nigerian Press and the Ruling Class.
Hyginus EKWUAZI: Political Values and the Nigerian Film.
Ohioma I.Y. POGOSON: Creative Endeavour and the Nigerian Environment.
Bola IGE: The Role of the Writer in a Developing Society.
Mabel SEGUN: Challenges of Being a Female Writer in a Male-Dominated Developing Society.
Leif LORENTZON: a Response to Oge Ogede.
Interviews:

Ken SARO-WIWA: Oil Boom, Oil Doom (Chantal Zabus).
Ken SARO-WIWA: English is the Hero (Diri I. Teilanyo).
Festus IYAYI: We Cannot Afford to Fail (Kunle Ajibade).
Biyi BANDELE-THOMAS: Coming Out Grinning (Holger Ehling).
Niyi OSUNDARE: I am one of Africa’s accidents (Stephen H. Arnold).
Niyi OSUNDARE: In the Pockets of My Memory (Bayo Adebowale).
‘Sola OSOFISAN: Many Ways to Kill a Rat (Holger Ehling).
Mamman Jiya VATSA: The Last Interview (Ezenwa-Ohaeto).
Molara OGUNDIPE-LESLIE: African Literature, Feminism, and Social Change (Irène Assibad ’Almeida).
Zulu SOFOLA: A Matriarch Comes Centre-Stage (Tunde Olusunle & Adeola Awoyale).
Creative Writing:

Niyo OSUNDARE: Poems from Waiting Laughters.
OBIWU: Three Poems.
Owiti-K’AKUMU: A Green Tree.
Kayode SANNI: Three Poems.
Ogaga IFOWODU: Two Poems.
Obina NWACHUKWU: Two Poems.
Idris O:O. AMALI: Three Poems.
Elias DUNU: Three Poems.
Dapo ADENIYI: The Return of Timbuktu; A Play.
Femi OSOFISAN: Opium; A Play.
Book Reviews
Notes for Contributors