Daria Tunca, Stylistic Approaches to Nigerian Fiction (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 Acknowledgements Introduction
Towards an ‘African Stylistics’? Historiographical and Methodological Considerations
Of Palm Oil and Wafers: Characterization in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
‘The Other Half of the Sun’: Ideology in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun
Art is a Journey: Metaphor in Ben Okri’s The Landscapes Within and Dangerous Love
‘Bi-textual’ Poetics: Investigating Form in Chris Abani’s Becoming Abigail
Children at War: Language and Representation in Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation and Chris Abani’s Song for Night
Conclusion Notes References Index ix 1 6 26 64 100 122 146 175 179 187 198