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10 “Write Only the Truth” (Re)contesting the Nigerian Nation in Chimeka Garricks’s Tomorrow Died Yesterday and Helon Habila’s Oil on Water
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Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vi
- The Nation and Its Literature(s) Representing People, Representing a People viii
- 1 Reticent Nations: Governor General’s Award–Winning Fiction and the Representation of Canada 1
- 2 Cultural Memory, National Identity: The Changing Paradigms of Acadian Literature 21
- 3 Literary Resistance: Situating a Métis National Literature 43
- 4 Intersections of Nationhood, Multiculturalism, and Globalization in South Asian Canadian Fiction: A Study of Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? 65
- 5 Canadian Literature in Heritage Languages and the Politics of Canon Formation 89
- 6 “No Nation Now but the Imagination” No Caribbean Nation without the Dutch Caribbean 109
- 7 Rediscovering the Republic: The Work of Joan Daniel Bezsonoff 129
- 8 A Multinational Narrative in a Case Study of Translating an Eastern Christian Play 147
- 9 Nigeria’s Other Civil War: Ken Saro-Wiwa and Ogoni Nationalism 167
- 10 “Write Only the Truth” (Re)contesting the Nigerian Nation in Chimeka Garricks’s Tomorrow Died Yesterday and Helon Habila’s Oil on Water 185
- Contributors 203
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vi
- The Nation and Its Literature(s) Representing People, Representing a People viii
- 1 Reticent Nations: Governor General’s Award–Winning Fiction and the Representation of Canada 1
- 2 Cultural Memory, National Identity: The Changing Paradigms of Acadian Literature 21
- 3 Literary Resistance: Situating a Métis National Literature 43
- 4 Intersections of Nationhood, Multiculturalism, and Globalization in South Asian Canadian Fiction: A Study of Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? 65
- 5 Canadian Literature in Heritage Languages and the Politics of Canon Formation 89
- 6 “No Nation Now but the Imagination” No Caribbean Nation without the Dutch Caribbean 109
- 7 Rediscovering the Republic: The Work of Joan Daniel Bezsonoff 129
- 8 A Multinational Narrative in a Case Study of Translating an Eastern Christian Play 147
- 9 Nigeria’s Other Civil War: Ken Saro-Wiwa and Ogoni Nationalism 167
- 10 “Write Only the Truth” (Re)contesting the Nigerian Nation in Chimeka Garricks’s Tomorrow Died Yesterday and Helon Habila’s Oil on Water 185
- Contributors 203
