Nigeria – a Failed or Fragile State?
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Nigeria – państwo kruche czy upadłe? Dyskurs katastroficzny w Rybakach Chigozie Obiomy
Nigeria – a Failed or Fragile State? Catastrophic Discourse in The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma

Author(s): Błażej Popławski
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Culture and social structure
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Chigozie Obioma; The Fishermen; Nigerian literature; Africa; catastrophic discourse

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to characterize the multidimensional crisis of Nigeria on the basisof the novel Fishermen written by Chigozie Obioma. Obioma, a representative ofthe third generation of Nigerian writers, constructs a narrative around a selffulfilling prophecy about the annihilation of interpersonal relations, as well as themacrosocial, the political, and ecological crisis in West Africa. Finally, the ethnicand political views of Obioma in the context of the collapse of statehood in Africaare characterized.

  • Issue Year: 472/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 25-41
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish