{"product_id":"strategic-transformations-in-nigerian-writing","title":"Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing","description":"Ato Quayson gives a historical and literary framework for the writers' varied engagements with oral traditions.\n\nThis 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\n\n North America: Indiana U Press","brand":"James Currey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54217291891032,"sku":"9780852555439","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780852555439_6d9c640e-7166-49da-aade-f09f45d1b5ea.jpg?v=1768277724","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/strategic-transformations-in-nigerian-writing","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}