Alàgbà Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí as a Yorùbá Novelist by Lere Adeyemi

“…However, our focus in this study is to examine Adébáyọ̀ ̣ Fálétí as a Yorùbá novelist through his literary lens. …”
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The Brass-Bells Drum: An African Literary Writer’s imaging of Neo-colonial woes in Nigeria by Arinpe G. Adejumo, Emmanuel Akinyinka Ilori

Subjects: “…Corruption, Yoruba novelists, political instability, misgovernance.…”
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Representation of Fictional Characters with Disabilities in Selected Crime Novels of Oͅládèͅjoͅ Òkédìjí by Oͅlálérè Adéyeͅmí

“…The paper concluded that the message of the novelist about people with disabilities is that disability is not an element of inability; there is ability in disability if society projects a positive image of people with disabilities.                 …”
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A Shona assessment of evolving missionary Christianity in Zimbabwe by F. Hale

“…One of the few female indigenous observers was the Shona novelist, Tsitsi Dangarembga (b. 1959), whose award-winning Nervous Conditions was published in 1988. …”
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Os discursos do etnólogo, do filósofo e do ficcionistana estrutura do romance Nove noites by Cid Ottoni Bylaardt

“…This paper intends to establish a dialogue between two texts: “Structure, Signand Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences”, by Jacques Derrida, andNovenoites[Nine nights] by the Brazilian contemporary novelist Bernardo Carvalho.Derrida‟s text seems tohold the origins of the deconstructionist thinking of thephilosopher, and begins with an aporia pointed by Lévi-Strauss in the binarypair nature-culture to discuss the centered model of the occidental thinking.This scandal, thus, is associated to the activity of the ethnologist and has itsroots in ethnography. …”
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The critique of Gikuyu religion and culture in S.N. Ngubiah's A Curse from God by F. Hale

“…In contrast to the nostalgic defensiveness of many Kenyan and other post-colonial African writers, perhaps most notably Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the Gikuyu novelist S.N. Ngubiah found not salvation but a burden in certain aspects of his precolonialist indigenous culture. …”
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Marching towards the Cruzada: Douglas Jerrold's road to nationalist Spain by F. Hale

“…Perhaps no English Catholic played a more central role in the almost daily war of words in the secular and religious press than Douglas Jerrold (1893-1964), a lay publicist, novelist, and amateur historian whose Tory sentiments and disillusionment with liberal democracy and the course of modern civilisation in general permeated his writing. …”
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‘In-Betweenness’ Declared and Confirmed: Zoë Wicomb’s October in the Untightened Grip of Ethnic and National Identification by Bartnik Ryszard

“…Hence, my primary intent is to focus on the novelist as equipped with a faculty for crossing over separate cultural traditions and embracing different formative experiences. …”
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Intertextuality in Selected Narrative Poems of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí by Arinpe Adejumo, Adefemi Akinseloyin

“…He was born at Agbóóyè in Ọyọ̀ ́ and had his elementary life on the farm, where he was exposed to the Yorùbá culture undiluted. He was a novelist, playwright, poet, scriptwriter and actor when alive. …”
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Constructing Identities: Amos Tutuola and the Ibadan Literary Elite in the wake of Nigerian Independence by Mackenzie Finley

“… With Nigerian novelist Amos Tutuola as primary subject, this paper at[1]tempts to understand the construction of sociocultural identities in Nigeria in the wake of independence. …”
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African Childhood “Reawakened”: Using Cultural Studies Theory in Understanding the Use of Symbolism in Camara Laye’s The African Child. by Johnson, Ocan, Lillian, Tindyebwa

“…This paper reports the findings of a pragmatic study that uses follow-up interviews as a method to investigate how participants read the language in the novel by a renowned African novelist Camara Laye. The study builds on antecedent work that has identified patterns of language presentation as techniques of characterisation in the novel “The African Child”. …”
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Literature and History: Study of Nigerian Indigenous Historical Novels by Lere Adeyemi

“…It is against this background that this paper examines the relationship between literature and history and how Yoruba novelists use their works as vehicles for the repre­sentation of history. …”
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Imagens precárias: inscrições tênues de violência ditatorial no Brasil by Márcio Seligmann-Silva

“…The author tries to show the strategies of presentation of this past and its tough inscription departing from the works of artists (as Rosângela Rennó), photographers and novelists (as Renato Tapajós and Urariano Mota).…”
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Specifics of irony in selected novels by Rudolf Sloboda by Romana Antalová

“…The article also considers the use of parabase, which, in combination with the fragmentary nature of the text, leads to a weakening of narrativity – one of the fundamental characteristics of Sloboda’s novelistic work. Another aspect analysed is the subversive effect of irony.…”
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Estação Carandiru e o mundo construído pelas formas de nomeação by Maria Aparecida Silva Ribeiro

“…These stories, before assuming novelistic format, had circulated only as journalistic fact, several of them having been subsequently adapted for the cinema. …”
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