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The combination of the words 'language' and 'Anglophone African literatures' generally brings to mind an aesthetic based on the use of proverbs and phrases borrowed from the writers' mother tongues. Such culturally specific features also characterize Nigerian fiction – but can this rich literary tradition really be reduced to its reliance on local languages and folklore? Answering this question in the negative, this book claims that the analysis of style in Nigerian fiction needs to be broadened to account for the range of linguistic techniques deployed by contemporary writers. Drawing on the discipline of stylistics, this study introduces a series of methodological tools to demonstrate how sustained attention to form can foster understanding of content in selected works by some of the most widely celebrated Nigerian writers of recent times – Chris Abani, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Uzodinma Iweala and Ben Okri. Among the key issues addressed are the link between style and characterization, the interplay between aesthetics and ideology, and the relationship between language and representation. These different thematic approaches converge to suggest that, while the cultural specificity of Nigerian fiction cannot – and should not – be ignored, this body of works also needs to be freed from the straightjacket of critical and disciplinary orthodoxy that has too often restricted its interpretation.

Roman nigérian de langue anglaise --- Stylistique --- Stylistique.

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African literature --- English literature --- Roman nigérian de langue anglaise --- Fiction in English.

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Part Inferno, part Paradise Lost, and part Sunjiata epic, Song for Night is the story of a West African boy soldier's lyrical, terrifying, yet beautiful journey through the nightmare landscape of a brutal war in search of his lost platoon. The reader is led by the voiceless protagonist who, as part of a land mine-clearing platoon, had his vocal chords cut; a move to keep these children from screaming when blown up, and thereby distracting the other minesweepers. Written in a ghostly voice, each chapter is headed by a line of the unique sign language these children invented. This book is unlike anything else ever written about an African war.

Child soldiers --- Mute persons --- Children and war --- Roman nigérian de langue anglaise --- Enfants soldats --- Enfants et guerre --- 21e siècle --- Nigéria --- Africa, West --- Roman --- Roman nigérian de langue anglaise --- 21e siècle --- Nigéria

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Igbo (African people) in literature. --- Roman nigérian de langue anglaise --- Roman africain de langue anglaise --- Achebe, Chinua (1930-....). Things fall apart --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Achebe, Chinua. --- Nigeria --- In literature. --- Roman nigérian de langue anglaise --- 20e siècle --- Achebe, Chinua