Explores the importance of identity and the idea of home in Nigerian fiction Shows how fictionalized representations of Nigeria give insights into the real history and society of the country Surveys a range of notable Nigerian authors and works relating to nationhood, colonialism and postcolonialism

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Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

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1 Introduction: Nation as Fiction/Fictionalizing the Nation.- PART I: COLONIAL PHASE.- 2 Literature and the colonized nation.- 3 Literary Founding Fathers and ideas of Nationhood.- 4 Women writers and the (Post)colony: (Writing) The Colony in Nigerian Women's Works.- PART II: POST-COLONIAL PHASE.- 5 Postcolonial Modernity and Literary Imagination.- 6 Contemporary Women Writers and the Representations of Postcolonial Nigeria.- 7 Literature and Nigeria in the Digital Age.- PART III: CONCLUDING THOUGHTS.- 8 Shifts and Ambiguities: Unstable Literature or Unstable Nation?.