Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing

Ato Quayson is a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and a Lecturer in Commonwealth and International Literature in English.

• African Literature and the Question of OralityNutritive Junctures: Samuel Johnson and Yoruba HistoriographyTreasures of an Opulent Fancy: Amos Tutuola and the Folktale NarrativeThe Space of Transformations: Theory, Myth and Ritual in the Work of Wole SoyinkaNarrative Through a Prism of Indigenous Beliefs: Examples from Ben Okri's Short StoriesHarvesting the Folkloric Intuition: The Famished RoadConclusions and ReflectionsBibliographyIndex