Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing: Orality & History in the Work of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka & Ben Okri

by Ato Quayson

The author of this work takes issue with the prevalent use of oral tradition in the criticism of Europhone written literature as a cultural matrix. Instead, he proposes a view of literary tradition as the outcome of numerous acts of positioning in relation to indigenous resources.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Ato Quayson is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism, Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing, Calibrations: Reading for the Social, and Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation, as well as editor of the two-volume Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature, coeditor of A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism Studies and general editor of the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry.

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[Leif · Rating 4 out of 5]

Would that we could all write such eloquent, capable dissertations!