Nigeria's Third-Generation Literature

This book considers the evolution and characteristics of Nigeria's third-generation literature, which emerged between the late 1980s and the early 1990s and is marked by expressive modes and concerns distinctly different from those of the preceding era.

Ode Ogede is Former Vice-President of the Modern Language Association of Nigeria and is currently Professor of English at North Carolina Central University, USA, as well as author of several books.

Tables of Contents 1. New Wines and Old and New Bottles 2. Parable, Metaphor, the Pictorial Frame, Emblem of Moral Decadence 3. Allegory, Migration, Mock-Epic, and Unspeakable Subjects 4. Elegy, Prose Narrative, and the Inner Life 5. Subverted Narrative of Disappointed Expectations 6. Ethnography, Patriarchy (or Male Dominance), Anecdotal Portraiture, and the Unspeakable Subject of Co-Wife Rivalry, or the Dilemma of the Western Educated Woman within Polygyny 7. Anecdote, Allegory, and the Pictorial Frame 8. Signing Off/Out Index