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Postcolonial mythology and ethnic self-canonization in Biafran fiction and activism

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Postcolonial mythology and ethnic self-canonization in Biafran fiction and activismby Abba Abba.
Author:	Abba, Abba A.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	xiv, 222 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Igbo fictionHistory and criticism.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-92789-8
ISBN:	9783031927898$q(electronic bk.)

Postcolonial mythology and ethnic self-canonization in Biafran fiction and activism
Abba, Abba A.

Postcolonial mythology and ethnic self-canonization in Biafran fiction and activism[electronic resource] /by Abba Abba. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xiv, 222 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - African histories and modernities,2634-5781. - African histories and modernities..

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Myths Colonial History and Ethnic Selfcanonization -- Chapter 3: From Colonial to Postcolonial Mythologies: Influence on Igbo Ethnic Identity -- Chapter 4: Heinemanns AWS Archive and the Politics of Publishing Biafra -- Chapter 5: Ethnic Stereotypes in Nigeria Biafra War Fiction -- Chapter 6: Activism Counter Mythology and Ethnic SelfCanonization -- Chapter 7: Bridging the Gulf.

Postcolonial Mythology and Ethnic Self-Canonization in Biafran Fiction and Activism provides a solid, insightful and refreshingly lucid account of the mutations and powers of myth-making as an ideological and political force. In a good number of absorbing articles published in some of the most prestigious journals in the field, Dr Abba has constantly staked a claim to his emergence as an assured and dependable critical voice on African literature. This book demonstrably validates that claim. -Prof. Isidore Diala, Imo State University, Owerri. Postcolonial Mythology and Ethnic Self-Canonization in Biafran Fiction and Activism explores the ways in which communities that have been marginalized in colonial discourses attempt to reconstruct their identities, histories, and narratives through the use of postcolonial myths. The deconstruction of stereotypes and creation of self-referential myths often play a crucial role in empowering marginalised communities to reassert their cultural identity and reclaim their cultural symbols with narratives of counter-history. Relying on the experience of the Igbo and the Nigeria-Biafra War event, the book demonstrates how ethnic groups in Africa articulate their resistance against subalternity. Through literary, historical, and archival analyses, it offers an unbiased reading of postcolonial mythologies and counter-mythologies in Biafran literature and activism and how they contribute to a broader understanding of colonialism, ethnic-minoritization and ethnic self-canonization. With its robust analysis, the book sets new benchmarks for scholars, researchers, teachers and students in humanities and social sciences, especially literature, history, political science and anthropology for re-reading ethnicity and rethinking the timeless value of inter-ethnic communication. Abba Abba is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the Federal University Lokoja, Nigeria. His research has been devoted to postcolonial Anglophone literatures with specific interest in cultural mythologies, ecocriticism, clinical narratology, publishing archives, literary activism and terrorism studies. He has won fellowships from the British Academy, the ACLS-African Humanities Programme and the DAAD, as well as the Nigeria-LNG Prize and the ANA Prizes for Literary Criticism. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

ISBN: 9783031927898$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-92789-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1000710
Igbo fiction
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PL8261.5

Dewey Class. No.: 896.332

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