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Author:   Dr. Penny Cartwright (University of Oxford, UK) ,  Professor or Dr. Abimbola Adelakun (University of Texas at Austin, USA) ,  Dr. Toyin Falola (Professor; Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities; University Distinguished Teaching Prof., University of Texas, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9798765109717

Pages:   224
Publication Date:   05 March 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. ‘The illusion of affluence’: Global overwhelm in Chris Abani’s Graceland (2004) 2. ‘What kind of ants had built them’: Dramatic irony and the impersonal global scale in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow (2006) 3. ‘Lovers in distant lands’: 419 as parody in Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani’s I Do Not Come To You By Chance (2009) 4. ‘Reality TV Nigerian-style’: Humanitarian global publics in Binyavanga Wainaina’s ‘Ships in High Transit’ (2007) and Beyond River Yei (2006) 5. ‘Gentlemen, we can rebuild him’: Disciplinary globalization and the faux-naif voice in Binyavanga Wainaina’s One Day I Will Write About This Place (2011) 6. ‘[S]how him up as an impostor’: Global enclaves and metafictional figures in A. Igoni Barrett’s Blackass (2015) Bibliography Index

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Penny Cartwright is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at University of Oxford, UK. Previously, she has worked as a Departmental Lecturer in English Literature at Oxford and a Teaching Associate in English at University of Bristol.

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