American Book Publishing Record, Cumulative 1993
Author : R.R. Bowker Company
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Page : 1708 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 1994
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Author : R.R. Bowker Company
Publisher :
Page : 1708 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 1994
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Author : R R Bowker Publishing
Publisher :
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 1999-03
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ISBN : 9780835240871
Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher :
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 1980
Category : United States
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Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher :
Page : 1400 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 1978
Category : United States
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Author : R. R. Bowker LLC
Publisher :
Page : 1260 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Reference
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Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher :
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 1978
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : R R Bowker Publishing
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 18,60 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780835244312
Author : Bowker
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780835243162
Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher :
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 1980
Category : United States
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Author : Wendy Griswold
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 31,3 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691186308
Greed, frustrated love, traffic jams, infertility, politics, polygamy. These--together with depictions of traditional village life and the impact of colonialism made familiar to Western readers through Chinua Achebe's writing--are the stuff of Nigerian fiction. Bearing Witness examines this varied content and the determined people who, against all odds, write, publish, sell, and read novels in Africa's most populous nation. Drawing on interviews with Nigeria's writers, publishers, booksellers, and readers, surveys, and a careful reading of close to 500 Nigerian novels--from lightweight romances to literary masterpieces--Wendy Griswold explores how global cultural flows and local conflicts meet in the production and reception of fiction. She argues that Nigerian readers and writers form a reading class that unabashedly believes in progress, rationality, and the slow-but-inevitable rise of a reading culture. But they do so within a society that does not support their assumptions and does not trust literature, making them modernists in a country that is simultaneously premodern and postmodern. Without privacy, reliable electricity, political freedom, or even social toleration of bookworms, these Nigerians write and read political satires, formula romances, war stories, complex gender fiction, blood-and-sex crime capers, nostalgic portraits of village life, and profound explorations of how decent people get by amid urban chaos. Bearing Witness is an inventive and moving work of cultural sociology that may be the most comprehensive sociological analysis of a literary system ever written.