Course ELS 111 | Origins of Nigerian Literature in English | 100 Level | 2nd Semester Download PDF
Course Structure Literature in Pre-Literate Nigeria. Classification of Oral Literature: The Spoken Form (Prose): Myth, Legend, Folktale, Fable, Proverb. The Sung Form (Poetry): Musical poetry, Lyrics, Dirges/Elegy, Invocative poetry, Panegyric Poetry, Special Occasion poetry e.g. Births, Weddings. The Performance (Drama): Festival, Ritual, Masquerades, Storytelling as Drama, Music and Dance. Writtings in I degenous languages. The rise of written literaturein- English. Colonialism in Nigerian Literature. Eco criticism in Nigerian Literature. Womanism and feminism, political corruption in Nigerian literature. The place of Chinua Achebe and his contemporaries in Nigerian written literature in English