170
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Popular Cultural Memory in Chris Abani’s Graceland

References

  • Abani, Chris. 2004. Graceland. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • Achebe, Chinua. 1958. Things Fall Apart. London: Heinemann.
  • Achebe, Chinua. 1964. Arrow of God. London: Heinemann.
  • Adéèkó, Adélékè. 2008. “Power Shift: America in the New Nigerian Imagination.” Global Society 2 (2): 10–30. doi: 10.2979/GSO.2008.2.2.10
  • Adesokan, Akin. 2011. Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • Adichie, Chimamanda. 2006. Half of a Yellow Sun. London: Fourth Estate.
  • Ali, Tariq. 1993. “Literature and Market Realism.” New Left Review 1/199:140–145
  • Appadurai, Appadurai. 1995. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Appiah, K. Anthony. 1992. In my Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture. London: Methuen.
  • Aycock, Amanda. 2009. “Becoming Black and Elvis: Transnational and Performative Identity in the Novels of Chris Abani.” Safundi 10 (1): 11–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17533170802650987.
  • Bakhtin, M. 1981. Mikhail. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Austin: University of Texas Press.
  • Barber, Karin. 1997. “Introduction.” In Readings in African Popular Culture, ed. Karin Barber Bloomington, 1–11. Indiana University Press.
  • Bordieu, Pierre. 1993. The field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature, Trans. Randal Johnson. Cambridge, England: Polity.
  • Brouillette, Sarah. 2007. Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230288171
  • Chielozona, Eze. 2005. “Cosmopolitan Solidarity: Negotiating Transculturality in Contemporary Nigerian Novels.” English in Africa 32 (1): 99–112.
  • Dawson, Ashley. 2009. “Surplus City: Structural Adjustment, Self-Fashioning, and Urban Insurrection in Chris Abani’s Graceland.” Interventions 11 (1): 16–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698010902752681
  • De Certeau, Michel. 1984. The Practice of Everyday Life, Trans. Steven Randall. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Dunton, Chris. 2008. “Entropy and Energy: Lagos as City of Words.” Research in African Literatures 39 (2): 68–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/RAL.2008.39.2.68
  • Edensor, Tim. 2002. National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life. New York: Berg Publishers.
  • Featherstone, Mike. 1992. “Postmodernism and the Aestheticization of Everyday Life.” In Modernity and Identity, edited by Scott Lash & Jonathan Friedman, 265–290. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Hamilton, C., V. Harris, M. Pickover, G. Reid, R. Saleh and J. Taylor, eds. 2002. Refiguring the Archive. Cape Town: David Phillip. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0570-8
  • Highmore, Ben. 2005. Cityscapes: Cultural Readings in the Material and Symbolic City. New York. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Huggan, Graham. 2001. The Post-Colonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins. New York: Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203420102
  • Kattanek, Sita Maria. 2011. “The Nigerian Coming-of-Age Novel as a Globalization Device: A Reading of Chris Abani’s GraceLand.” The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 3 (3): 426–33. http://rupkatha.com/V3/n3/07_Chris_Abani_GraceLand.pdf
  • Krishnan, Madhu. 2011. “Beyond Tradition and Progress: Re-imagining Nigeria in Chris Abani’s Graceland.” Anglistica 15 (1): 97–106.
  • Larkin, Brian. 2008. Signal and Noise: media, infrastructure, and urban culture in Nigeria. Durham: Duke University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822389316
  • Manning, Patrick. 2009. The African Diaspora: A History through Culture. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Newell, Stephanie. 2006. West African Literatures: Ways of Reading. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Obiechina, Eze. 1973. An African Popular Literature: A Study of Onitsha Market Pamphlets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Omelsky, Matthew. 2011. “Chris Abani and the Politics of Ambivalence.” Research in African Literatures 42 (4): 84–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.42.4.84
  • Patterson-Stein, Jacob. 2009. “De-Nationalizing American Music in the ‘Third Space’ of Graceland.” eSharp 13: 48–68.
  • Priebe, Richard. 1997. “Popular Writing in Ghana: A Sociology & Rhetoric.” Readings in African Popular Culture, edited by Karin Barber, 81–90. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • Ranciere, Jacques. 2004. The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible, Trans. Gabriel Rockhill. New York: Continuum.
  • Sereda, Stefan. 2008. “Riffing on Resistance: Music in Chris Abani’s Graceland.” Ariel 39 (4): 31–47.
  • Sewlall, Harry. 2010. “‘Image, music, text:’ Elvis Presley as a postmodern semiotic context.” Journal of Literary Studies 26 (2): 44–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564711003683600
  • Stewart, Susan. 1984. On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.