Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing
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A01=Ato Quayson
Amos Tutuola
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Ben Okri
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History
Indigenous resources
Nigerian writing
Orality
Samuel Johnson
Social and political context
Wole Soyinka
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- ISBN 9780852555439
- Weight: 232g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1997
- Publisher: James Currey
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Ato Quayson gives a historical and literary framework for the writers' varied engagements with oral traditions.
This is an innovative and original study which offers a new perspective on a Nigerian literary tradition. Quayson takes issue with the prevalent use of oral tradition in the criticism of Europhone written literature as a kind ofcultural matrix out of which the written text emerged, and the essence of which it embodies. He proposes instead a view of literary tradition as the outcome of numerous, and varied, strategic acts of positioning in relation to indigenous resources - which vary according to the individual writer's project but also according to the larger social and political context. He constructs a historical framework in which to view these strategies as performed by Samuel Johnson in The History of the Yorubas (1921 [1897]), Amos Tutuola (1950s), Soyinka (1960s and 70s) and Ben Okri (1980s and 90s).' - Karin Barber, Senior Lecturer at the Centre of African Studies, University of Birmingham
North America: Indiana U Press
