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The Idea of “Third Generation Nigerian Literature”: Conceptualizing Historical Change and Territorial Affiliation in the Contemporary Nigerian Novel

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Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies Literature, Culture, and Criticism Caribbean and African Literature and Culture

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Recent critical discourse on Nigerian fiction employs historicizing techniques that categorize texts according to generations, each of which is presumed to share formal and political qualities and represent a distinct stage in national literary developmen

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