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Conceiving Neighbourhood in Northern Nigerian Fiction

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Conceiving Neighbourhood in Northern Nigerian Fiction

[Article]

Stephen T. Ogundipe

Leiden

Brill

Representations of neighbourhood in contemporary Northern Nigerian fiction are a departure point for scholars exploring the structures and sources of ethnic and religious violence. Using Edify Yakusak's After They Left and Elnathan John's Born on a Tuesday, Slavoj Zizek's analysis of the concept of neighbour is applied here, to engage theoretically with Northern Nigerian social conditions. This framework illuminates the links existing between the everyday experience of neighbourhoods in real life, and their imaginative representations in the literary arts. Representations of neighbourhood in contemporary Northern Nigerian fiction are a departure point for scholars exploring the structures and sources of ethnic and religious violence. Using Edify Yakusak's After They Left and Elnathan John's Born on a Tuesday, Slavoj Zizek's analysis of the concept of neighbour is applied here, to engage theoretically with Northern Nigerian social conditions. This framework illuminates the links existing between the everyday experience of neighbourhoods in real life, and their imaginative representations in the literary arts.

2018

133-153

Utafiti

13/2

2683-6408

Edify Yakusak

Elnathan John

ethnic conflict

neighbourhood gangs

Nigerian fiction

religious violence

Stephen T. Ogundipe

10.1163/26836408-01302008

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