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Kortenaar uses writings of the renowned Nigerian African writer Chinua Achebe (1930-2013), especially Things Fall Apart (1958), to elucidate the connection between debt, law, and realism in African writing. Highly recommended. Choice

Kortenaar uses writings of the renowned Nigerian African writer Chinua Achebe (1930-2013), especially Things Fall Apart (1958), to elucidate the connection between debt, law, and realism in African writing. Highly recommended. Choice While attuned to the Nigerian context and how its literature makes demands of and articulates statehood, subjectivity, violence, and the law, this ambitious book demonstrates what we can learn about the state from the African scenario. Readers of Debt, Law, Realism will come away not just with information on how Nigerian writers were imagining the state, but with a recalibration of their understanding of state formation in Europe and elsewhere. An extremely original contribution to African literary criticism and political philosophy more broadly. Cajetan Iheka, Yale University and author of Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature

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Neil ten Kortenaar is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

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