Waiting for an Angel: Refashioning the African Writing Self

Edoro, Ainehi

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Waiting for an Angel: Refashioning the African Writing Self

Edoro, Ainehi

Abstract

Using Helon Habila's Waiting for an Angel, the author argues that third generation Nigerian writers, compared to their post-independence literary forbears, articulate a more refined representation of the artist as a social entity and of writing as a collective process precisely because they do not take the social function of African writers and writings for granted.