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Referring to Rita Felski’s discussion concerning the functions of literature, this chapter serves as a conclusion to this study’s exploration of Nigerian diaspora literature. Summarizing the findings, it outlines the functions this literature fulfils, particularly the narrativization and transmission of information about life in Nigeria and experiences of migration. Nevertheless, the chapter ends the book with the assertion that, instead of concentrating on this literature’s utility, the novels discussed should, first and foremost, be read for the literary pleasures they provide.
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There are only a few novels that avoid easy placement between the two poles, arguably including Chris Abani’s The Virgin of Flames (2007) and The Secret History of Las Vegas (2014), Segun Afolabi’s Goodbye Lucille, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani’s I Do Not Come to You by Chance (2009), and A. Igoni Barrett’s Blackass (2015). But even if they hardly show any traces of this tension, they engage the criteria ‘African literature’ in different ways.
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Feldner, M. (2019). Conclusion. In: Narrating the New African Diaspora. African Histories and Modernities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05743-5_11
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