'I Cannot Be My Mother's Son': The Politics of Identity and Reading Otherwise in Contemporary Nigerian Literature

“我不能成为我母亲的儿子”：当代尼日利亚文学中的身份政治和阅读否则

• 批准号: 2886775
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2886775
• 关键词: Cannot; My; Mother; Son; Politics

This thesis reads contemporary Nigerian literature otherwise using the theoretical framework of Donald Winnicott to develop the scope of decolonial studies. In this unique study, I turn object-relations, or ego development theory, into a political lens to explore the recent shift in Nigeria's literary narrative. I interrogate the parent-child paradigms underpinning this fiction and relate them to a political framework which claims Nigeria is a country 'stagnated': tied to cycles of violence and dependency. My study shows how authors are using literature to counter this narrative by curating 'potential' and writing a future beyond colonialism.

本文读了当代尼日利亚文学，否则使用唐纳德·温尼科特（Donald Winnicott）的理论框架来开发非元数据研究的范围。在这项独特的研究中，我将对象关系或自我发展理论变成了政治视角，以探索尼日利亚文学叙事最近的转变。我审问了这本小说的基础的亲子范式，并将它们与一个政治框架联系起来，该框架声称尼日利亚是一个“停滞不前”的国家：与暴力和依赖的周期有关。我的研究表明，作者如何通过策划“潜力”并撰写殖民主义以外的未来来应对这种叙述。