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- Title
SEX AND THE HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS IN SELECT NIGERIAN NOVELS.
- Authors
Okeke, Ethel Ngozi; Eruaga, Abigail Obiageli
- Abstract
Before now, sex was a taboo in African literature. However, emerging voices rebel against this reticence. Among such new voices and works are Nigeria's: Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), Habila's Waiting for an Angel (2002) and Atta's Everything Good Will Come (2005). These novels represent aesthetics of sex in Nigerian fiction. Adopting the postmodern theory this paper argues that these writers' engagement with sex assaults Nigeria's established literary conventions and that an open approach to sex liberates writers and readers from the strictures of convention and widens the possibilities of knowledge accruable from literary subject.
- Subjects
NIGERIA; HUMAN sexuality in literature; AFRICAN literature; NIGERIAN fiction; SEXUAL assault in literature
- Publication
LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research, 2022, Vol 19, Issue 3, p65
- ISSN
1813-2227
- Publication type
Article