Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Defining the Individual: Conceptual & Historical Limits
- 2 From a Crooked Rib & the Bildungsroman: Developing the Self, Developing the Nation
- 3 The ‘Gynocentric’ Bildungsroman: Sardines & Gifts
- 4 Modernism in A Naked Needle & Sweet & Sour Milk: Irony, Morality & the Aesthetic
- 5 Close Sesame & the Representation of Heteronomy
- 6 Dissolving the Boundaries of Self & Nation in Maps & Secrets
- 7 Reconstructing the Subject in the Third Trilogy: Links, Knots & Crosbones
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Defining the Individual: Conceptual & Historical Limits
- 2 From a Crooked Rib & the Bildungsroman: Developing the Self, Developing the Nation
- 3 The ‘Gynocentric’ Bildungsroman: Sardines & Gifts
- 4 Modernism in A Naked Needle & Sweet & Sour Milk: Irony, Morality & the Aesthetic
- 5 Close Sesame & the Representation of Heteronomy
- 6 Dissolving the Boundaries of Self & Nation in Maps & Secrets
- 7 Reconstructing the Subject in the Third Trilogy: Links, Knots & Crosbones
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Reading Nuruddin FarahThe Individual, the Novel and the Idea of Home, pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014