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The extinction of Menai : a novel

Title

The extinction of Menai : a novel / Chuma Nwokolo.

Author

Nwokolo, Chuma

Publication

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description

372 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"In a novel of stunning scope, Chuma Nwokolo moves across time and place to deliver a story that speaks to urgent contemporary concerns. His characters' indelible voices offer perspectives that are simultaneously global, political, and intimately human. The place at The Extinction of Menai's heart is the Niger delta village of Kreektown, even as the action spans continents. The cause of the trouble is an unethical drug trial administered to Kreektown residents--the fictional Menai people--in the early 1980s. And the unfolding tragedy is the looming end, decades later, of the Menai and their culture. Characters include continents-apart twin brothers separated at birth, an excommunicated Menai daughter living an urbane life with her doctor husband, and an infamous vigilante. And there is spiritual leader Mata Nimito, who retraces their ancient migration on his quest to preserve the soul of his people and resolve the consequences of a centuries-old betrayal. This epic for the modern era encompasses bioethics, language extinction, and Nigerian history and diaspora. Nwokolo confronts power relations between large corporations and small communities, corporate lobbies and governments, and big pharma and consumers, all expressed through the competing narratives that record the life and death of a civilization"--

Series Statement

Modern African writing

Uniform Title

Modern African writing.

Subject

Genre/Form

Domestic fiction.
Epic fiction.
Fiction.
Political fiction.
History.

Call Number

Sc D 23-354

ISBN

9780821422984
0821422987
9780821446201 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2017053684

OCLC

982091347

Author

Nwokolo, Chuma, author.

Title

The extinction of Menai : a novel / Chuma Nwokolo.

Publisher

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Modern African writing

Modern African writing.

Local Subject

Black author.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Research Call Number

Sc D 23-354

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