Conceiving Neighbourhood in Northern Nigerian Fiction

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" Conceiving Neighbourhood in Northern Nigerian Fiction "
Stephen T. Ogundipe

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1083645
Doc. No	:	LA127274
Call No	:	‭10.1163/26836408-01302008‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Stephen T. Ogundipe
Title & Author	:	Conceiving Neighbourhood in Northern Nigerian Fiction [Article]\ Stephen T. Ogundipe
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Utafiti
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	13/2
Page No	:	133–153
Abstract	:	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.
Descriptor	:	Edify Yakusak
Descriptor	:	Elnathan John
Descriptor	:	ethnic conflict
Descriptor	:	neighbourhood gangs
Descriptor	:	Nigerian fiction
Descriptor	:	religious violence
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/26836408-01302008‬