Persecution in Igbo-Nigerian Civil-War Narratives

Bibliographic Data

ID6091341
AuthorsIgnatius Chukwumah (0000-0001-6044-8083, Federal University NigeriaWukari, Taraba State, corresponding author), Cassandra Ifeoma Nebeife (Federal University NigeriaWukari, Taraba State)
Year2017
Volume49
Issue2
Pages241-259
Publication date2017-12-20
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMatatu (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0932-9714 • E-ISSN: 1875-7421
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/18757421-04902001
OpenAlexW2769346130
LanguageEN
Citations received2

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

Archaeology · Art · Igbo · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Persecution · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Social Movements and Cultural Identity · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy

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