Ora na-azu nwa: The figure of the child in third-generation Nigerian novels

Research in African Literatures

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 27-48

  Hron, Madelaine ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 62749100629     PISSN: 00345210     EISSN: 15272044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2979/RAL.2008.39.2.27     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Abani, Christopher, Virgin of Flames. New York: Penguin, 2007
2. -. Becoming Abigail. New York: Akashic, 2006
3. -. Graceland. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2004
4. Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. London: Heinemann, 1958
5. -. Girls at "War, and Other Stories. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973
6. Adebanwi, Wale. Nigerian Identity Is Burdensome: Adichie Interview. May 11,2004. March 15 2006.
7. Adesanmi, Pius. "Redefining Paris: Trans-Modernity and Francophone African Négritude Fiction." Modern Fiction Studies 51.4 (2005): 958-75
8. Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun. London: Fourth Estate, 2006
9. -. Purple Hibiscus : A Novel. New York: Anchor. 2004
10. Afolabi, Segun. "Monday Morning." A Life Elsewhere. London: Jonathan Cape, 2006. 1-17
11. Ajiboye, Goke, Abiku. New York: Vantage, 1982
12. Akuneme, Ndubueze. I Saw Biafra. Lagos, Nigeria: Book Co., 2004
13. Atta, Sefi. Everything Good Will Come. Northampton, MA: Interlink, 2005
14. Aziude, Mike. Echoes of Biafra. Awgu, Nigeria: Skola, 1983
15. Azuah, Unoma Nguemo Anne. Sky-High Flames. Baltimore, MD: PublishAmerica, 2005
16. Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994
17. Boelhower, William. "The Immigrant Novel as Genre." Melus 8: 1 (1981): 3-13
18. Camara, Laye. L'enfant noir. Paris: Plon, 1953
19. Campbell, Karen. "Vivid 'Icarus' Charts a Child's Search for Self." Boston Globe June 20, 2005: B10
20. Cooper, Brian "Immigration and Schizophrenia: The Social Causation Hypothesis Revisited. The British Journal of Psychiatry" 186 (2005): 361-63
21. Ekwe, Herbert. "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie." The Literary Encyclopedia. March 15, 2006.
22. Elias, Norbert. The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners. New York: Urizen, 1978
23. Elugbe, Ben Ohiomamhe, and Augusta Phil Omamor. Nigerian Pidgin: Background and Prospects. Ibadan: Heinemann, 1991
24. Emecheta, Buchi. Destination Biafra. London: Allison and Busby, 1982
25. Emenyonu, Ernest. "Selection and Validation of Oral Materials for Children's Literature Artistic Resources in Chinua Achebe's Fiction for Children" Callaloo 25.2 (2002) 584-596
26. Euba, Femi. "Abiku." Five African Plays. London: Heinemann, 1972
27. Evaristo, Bernardine. The Emperor's Babe. London: Penguin, 2001
28. Fayose, Philomena Osazee Esigbemi. Nigerian Children's Literature in English. Ibadan: AENL Educational, 1995
29. Gilkes, Michael. Creative Schizophrenia: The Caribbean Cultural Challenge. Warwick: U of Warwick Centre for Caribbean Studies, 1986
30. Granqvist, Raoul, and Jürgen Martini. Preserving the Landscape of Imagination: Children's Literature in Africa. Matatu 17-18. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997
31. Habila, Helon. Waiting for an Angel. New York: Norton, 2003
32. -. Measuring Time. New York: Norton, 2007
33. Hron, Madelaine. "The Translation of Pain in Immigrant Texts." Diss. U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004
34. Huntley, Kristine. "Waiting for an Angel." The Booklist 99.9/10 (2003): 847
35. Hunt, Peter, and Millicent Lenz. Alternative Worlds in Fantasy Fiction. London: Continuum, 2001
36. Ikhigbonoareme, E. B. "Writing and Publishing Children's Literature: Problems and Prospects." Children and Literature in Africa. Ed. Chidi Ikonné, Emelia Oko, and Peter Onwudinjo. Ibadan: Heinemann, 1992. 61-70
37. Ike, Vincent Chukwuemeka. Sunset at Dawn. Glasgow: Fontana /Collins, 1976
38. Ikonné, Chidi, et al. Children and Literature in Africa. Ibadan: Heinemann, 1992
39. Isaacs, Kathleen. "Purple Hibiscus: A Novel." School Library Journal 51.3 (2005): 69
40. Iweala, Uzodinma. Beasts of No Nation. New York: HarperCollins, 2005
41. Kotun, Debo, Abiku. Pasadena, Calif.: Nepotist, 1998
42. Ma, Sheng-mei. Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures. Albany: SUNY Press, 1998
43. McCabe, Douglas. "Histories of Errancy: Oral Yoruba Abiku Texts and Soyinka's 'Abiku.'" Research in African Literatures 33.1 (2002): 45-74
44. Okorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi. Zahrah The Windseeker. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005
45. Okri, Ben. The Famished Road. New York: Anchor, 1992
46. Ogbaa, Kalu. A Century of Nigerian Literature: A Select Bibliography. Trenton, NJ: Africa World P, 2003
47. Ogunyemi, Chikwenye Okonjo. "An Abiku-Ogbanje Atlas: A Pre-Text for Rereading Soyinka's Ake and Morrison's Beloved." African American Review 36.4 (2002): 663-78
48. Okpewho, Isidore. Call Me By My Rightful Name. Trenton, NJ: Africa World P, 2004
49. Okpi, Kalu. Biafra Testament. London: Macmillan, 1982
50. Oyeyemi, Helen. The Icarus Girl. London: Bloomsbury, 2005
51. Oyono, Ferdinand. Une vie de boy. 1956. Paris: Julliard, 1960
52. Rudd, David. "Theorizing and Theory: How Does Children's Literature Exist?" Understanding Children's Literature. Ed. Peter Hunt and Millicent Lenz. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2005. 15-29
53. Sahgal, Nayantara. "The Schizophrenic Imagination." From Commonwealth to Post-Colonial. Ed. Anna Rutherford. Sydney: Dangaroo, 1992.30-39
54. Sarland, Charles. "Critical Tradition and Ideological Positioning." Understanding Children's Literature. Ed. Peter Hunt and Millicent Lenz. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2005. 30-50
55. Scarry, Elaine. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. New York: OUP, 1985
56. Segun, Mabel. "Children's and Youth Literature in Nigeria." Afrikanische Jugendliteratur Heute Und Morgen. Bonn: UNESCO-Kommission, 1988.50-69
57. Sharpley, Martdy, Gerard Hutchinson, Robin Murray, and Kwame McKenzie. "Understanding the Excess of Psychosis among the African-Caribbean Population in England." British Journal of Psychiatry 178 (suppl. 40) (2001): 60-68
58. Smith, Starr. "The Icarus Girl: A Novel." School Library Journal 51.10 (2005): 200
59. Stone, Misha. "Beasts of No Nation." Library Journal 130.14 (2005): 131
60. Ugabe, Kanchana. "The Visual Image of the Child in Western and African Art." Kunapipi 11.2 (1989): 107-15
61. UNICEF. At a Glance: Nigeria. March 15, 2006.
62. Waberi, Ali Abdourahman. «Les enfants de la postcolonie: esquisse d'une nouvelle génération d'écrivains francophones dAfrique noire.» Notre Librairie 135 (1998): 8-15
63. Wilson-Tagoe, Nana. "Children's Literature in Africa: Theoretical and Critical Issues." Children and Literature in Africa. Ed. Ikonné et al. Ibadan: Heinemann, 1992. 18-24