D. Tunca 
Stylistic Approaches to Nigerian Fiction 

Drawing on the discipline of stylistics, this book introduces a series of methodological tools and applies them to works by well-known Nigerian writers, including Abani, Adichie and Okri. In doing so, it demonstrates how attention to form fosters understanding of content in their work, as well as in African and postcolonial literatures more widely.

Table of Content

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Towards an ‘African Stylistics’? Historiographical and Methodological Considerations 2. Of Palm Oil and Wafers: Characterization in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus 3. ‘The Other Half of the Sun’: Ideology in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun 4. Art is a Journey: Metaphor in Ben Okri’s The Landscapes Within and Dangerous Love 5. ‘Bi-textual’ Poetics: Investigating Form in Chris Abani’s Becoming Abigail 6. Children at War: Language and Representation in Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation and Chris Abani’s Song for Night Conclusion Bibliography Index

About the author

Daria Tunca works in the English Department of the University of Liège, Belgium. Her research focuses on stylistic approaches to African literatures, with a particular emphasis on contemporary Nigerian fiction.