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04052aam a2200565 i 4500 001 9DCBEE58FFE911EBB6EAFDEE22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210818010020 008 201103t20212021qucc b 001 0 eng 020 $a 0228006694 020 $a 9780228006695 020 $a 0228006287 020 $a 9780228006282 035 $a (OCoLC)1202760387 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d NLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d CDX $d UKMGB $d PAU $d SILO 042 $a lac 043 $a f-nr--- 050 4 $a PR9387.4 $b .K67 2021 055 0 $a PR9387.4 $b .K67 2021 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 100 1 $a Kortenaar, Neil ten, $e author. 245 10 $a Debt, law, realism : $b Nigerian writers imagine the state at independence / $c Neil ten Kortenaar. 264 1 $a Montreal ; $b McGill-Queen's University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a x, 282 pages : $b portrait ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-273) and index. 520 $a "In the decade before and after independence, Nigerians not only adopted the novel but reinvented the genre. Nigerian novels imagined the new state, with its ideals of the rule of law, state sovereignty, and a centralized administration. Debt, Law, Realism argues that Nigerian novels were not written for a Western audience, as often stated, but to teach fellow citizens how to envision the state. The first Nigerian novels were overwhelmingly realist because realism was a way to convey the understanding shared by all subject to the rule of law. Debt was an important theme used to illustrate the social trust needed to live with strangers. But the novelists felt an ambivalence towards the state, which had been imposed by colonial military might. Even as they embraced the ideal of the rule of law, they kept alive a memory of other ways of governing themselves. Many of the first novelists - including Chinua Achebe - were Igbos, a people who had been historically stateless, and for whom justice had been a matter of interpersonal relations, consensus, and reciprocity, rather than a citizen's subordination to a higher authority. Debt, Law, Realism reads African novels as political philosophy, offering important lessons about the foundations of social trust, the principle of succession, and the nature of sovereignty, authority, and law."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic formats. 505 00 $a Machine generated contents note: $g 10. $t Discipline. $g 2. $t Reciprocity -- $g 3. $t Sovereign Debt -- $g 4. $t Of Confidence and Markets -- $g 5. $t Women and the Cowrie Zone -- $g 6. $t The Law's Monopoly on Violence -- $g 7. $t The Problem of Succession -- $g 8. $t Modern Debt and the Civil Service -- $g 9. $t Corruption -- $g 10. $t Discipline. 650 0 $a Nigerian fiction (English) $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Realism in literature. 651 0 $a Nigeria $x In literature. 650 0 $a State, The, in literature. 650 0 $a Sovereignty in literature. 650 0 $a Debt in literature. 650 0 $a Politics and literature $z Nigeria $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Debt in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00888792 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 $a Nigerian fiction (English) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01037596 650 7 $a Politics and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069960 650 7 $a Realism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01091237 650 7 $a Sovereignty in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01127385 650 7 $a State, The, in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01131954 651 7 $a Nigeria. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205229 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Kortenaar, Neil ten. $t Debt, law, realism. $d Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021 $z 9780228007807 $z 9780228007807 $w (OCoLC)1232238317 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526015801.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9DCBEE58FFE911EBB6EAFDEE22ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search