Nigerian Authors and the Me-Generation

Auteur

Eugenia Ossana is currently a lecturer at the University of Zaragoza. She holds a PhD in Contemporary Nigerian Literature and an MA in Advanced English Studies in Contemporary Literature and Cinema and Secondary Education, both from the University of Zaragoza. She also has a Mass Media Production degree from the University of Córdoba in Argentina. Her main research interests include Global South and Decolonial theory, contemporary West African prose fiction, African-centred feminisms and eco-fiction, and African futurist narratives.

Texte du rabat

It underscores Nigerian women authors' relatively unknown or dispersed role and acknowledges the emergence of a current Generation called the Me-Generation. Straddling the trope of blackness, three contemporary novels are analysed: My Sister, the Serial Killer, A Small Silence and Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi.

Contenu

Introduction

1. Introduction to Nigerian Literature: First-, Second-, Third- and Me-Generations
2. Of Ties and Lies: Aesthetic and Ethical Disruptions in My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
3. Embracing Darkness and Silence: Alternative Tropes for Healing and Resistance in A Small Silence by Jumoke Verissimo

4. Igbo Voices in Akwaeke Emezi's Freshwater
   Conclusion

   Index