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Persecution in Igbo-Nigerian Civil-War Narratives

LA120379

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Persecution in Igbo-Nigerian Civil-War Narratives

[Article]

Ignatius Chukwumah, Cassandra Ifeoma Nebeife, Ignatius Chukwumah, et al.

Leiden

Brill

Sociopolitical phenomena such as corruption, political instability, (domestic) violence, cultural fragmentation, and the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) have been central themes of Nigerian narratives. Important as these are, they tend to touch on the periphery of the major issue at stake, which is the vector of persecution underlying the Nigerian tradition in general and in modern Igbo Nigerian narratives in particular, novels and short stories written in English which capture, wholly or in part, the Igbo cosmology and experience in their discursive formations. The present study of such modern Igbo Nigerian narratives as Okpewho's The Last Duty (1976), Iyayi's Heroes (1986), Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun (2007), and other novels and short stories applies René Girard's theory of the pharmakos (Greek for scapegoat) to this background of persecution, particularly as it subtends the condition of the Igbo in postcolonial Nigeria in the early years of independence. Sociopolitical phenomena such as corruption, political instability, (domestic) violence, cultural fragmentation, and the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) have been central themes of Nigerian narratives. Important as these are, they tend to touch on the periphery of the major issue at stake, which is the vector of persecution underlying the Nigerian tradition in general and in modern Igbo Nigerian narratives in particular, novels and short stories written in English which capture, wholly or in part, the Igbo cosmology and experience in their discursive formations. The present study of such modern Igbo Nigerian narratives as Okpewho's The Last Duty (1976), Iyayi's Heroes (1986), Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun (2007), and other novels and short stories applies René Girard's theory of the pharmakos (Greek for scapegoat) to this background of persecution, particularly as it subtends the condition of the Igbo in postcolonial Nigeria in the early years of independence. Sociopolitical phenomena such as corruption, political instability, (domestic) violence, cultural fragmentation, and the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) have been central themes of Nigerian narratives. Important as these are, they tend to touch on the periphery of the major issue at stake, which is the vector of persecution underlying the Nigerian tradition in general and in modern Igbo Nigerian narratives in particular, novels and short stories written in English which capture, wholly or in part, the Igbo cosmology and experience in their discursive formations. The present study of such modern Igbo Nigerian narratives as Okpewho's The Last Duty (1976), Iyayi's Heroes (1986), Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun (2007), and other novels and short stories applies René Girard's theory of the pharmakos (Greek for scapegoat) to this background of persecution, particularly as it subtends the condition of the Igbo in postcolonial Nigeria in the early years of independence. Sociopolitical phenomena such as corruption, political instability, (domestic) violence, cultural fragmentation, and the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) have been central themes of Nigerian narratives. Important as these are, they tend to touch on the periphery of the major issue at stake, which is the vector of persecution underlying the Nigerian tradition in general and in modern Igbo Nigerian narratives in particular, novels and short stories written in English which capture, wholly or in part, the Igbo cosmology and experience in their discursive formations. The present study of such modern Igbo Nigerian narratives as Okpewho's The Last Duty (1976), Iyayi's Heroes (1986), Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun (2007), and other novels and short stories applies René Girard's theory of the pharmakos (Greek for scapegoat) to this background of persecution, particularly as it subtends the condition of the Igbo in postcolonial Nigeria in the early years of independence.

2017

241-259

Matatu

49/2

1875-7421

Ben Okri

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Festus Iyayi

Isidore Okpewho

Nigerian Civil War novel

persecution in African literature

René Girard

the pharmakos

Cassandra Ifeoma Nebeife

Ignatius Chukwumah

10.1163/18757421-04902001

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