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Of the short stories we read for this week, “Jumping Monkey Hill” stood out to me in the ways it portrays the assumptions and [...]
April 26, 2012
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This paper seeks to explore the operations of radio in constructing social space and global citizens in Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow [...]
April 19, 2012
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Disclaimer: this book is not specifically about Nigeria at any point; instead it has things to say about how we can think about images of radio [...]
April 17, 2012
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I almost feel as though this week’s screenings and readings should occupy two posts, but since I only want to write one (haha), I thought [...]
April 12, 2012
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The opening to Susan Andrade’s The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms 1958 – 1988 works as a summation of Frederic [...]
April 5, 2012
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One of the major discussion points from last class was the relationship between Elvis and Sunday, so I thought it appropriate to continue that [...]
March 29, 2012
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The excerpts from Brian Larkin’s Signal and Noise make interesting claims about the nature of cinema in colonial Nigerian society. For [...]
March 8, 2012
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I agree with recent posts which disagree with Jameson’s understanding of so-called “Third World” literature, and my primary complaint comes [...]
March 1, 2012
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As we work to come to an understanding as to what constitutes a particularly “Nigerian” literature, one of the things we’ve discussed is [...]
February 15, 2012
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Perhaps the most important character (using the term “character” loosely) in the Adiche’s Half of a Yellow Sun is not Ugwu or Olanna or [...]
February 9, 2012