Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel.(Book Review)

Publication: Research in African Literatures

Publication Date: 22-MAR-03

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COPYRIGHT 2003 Indiana University Press

by Pericles Lewis. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. x + 241 pp. ISBN 0-521-66111-0 cloth.

While working on a book on the Nigerian novel during the 1990s, I asked a great many writers how they thought about the relationship between their craft and their society. A number of them told me something like this: "I would very much like to write fiction that is subjective, introspective, psychological, that deal with the existential situation of the individual, but I simply cannot do so at the present time. Nigeria's...

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