The family in crisis: an analysis of the home spaces in a selection of contemporary Nigerian novels in English
"To examine the nature of the home spaces described in three twenty-first-century Nigerian novels in English, a selection of spatial theories was applied. These contemporary novels all depict family life and are set in different areas of Nigeria, a postcolonial country encompassing diverse ethn...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin Bruxelles Chennai Lausanne New York Oxford
Peter Lang
[2025]
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| Series: | Sächsische Beiträge zur Literatur- und Ideengeschichte
Volume 70 |
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Sächsische Beiträge zur Literatur- und Ideengeschichte (Volume 70)
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| Online Access: | lizenzpflichtig
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| Author Notes: | Bettina Cowin |
| Summary: | "To examine the nature of the home spaces described in three twenty-first-century Nigerian novels in English, a selection of spatial theories was applied. These contemporary novels all depict family life and are set in different areas of Nigeria, a postcolonial country encompassing diverse ethnic backgrounds, including Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa environments. Despite these regional and cultural differences, all the homes presented in the novels are concerned with families in a state of crisis. Examining these novels in their social and historical context using spatial theory, reasons for the manifest dysfunctionality of the families were considered. A further objective was to explore whether the strictly hierarchized patriarchal structures in many of the family homes correspond to similar structures on the macro-level of the country. Additionally, the aim was to examine to what extent the oppressive political and social situation of the postcolonial country as a whole percolates down into the heterogenous domestic situations of these groups"-- |
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| Item Description: | Originally presented as the author's dissertation, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Anglistisches Seminar, 2023/2024 Includes bibliographical references |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9783631925157 9783631925164 |