List of Plates

xi

Foreword

xiii

Acknowledgments

xvii

Introduction

1

Part I: “Behind My Eye I Am Seeing”: Perspectives of Young Narrators

11

Chapter 1: Global Specters: Child Soldiers in the Post-National Fiction of Uzodinma Iweala and Chris Abani

13

Chapter 2: “Breaking Gods”: The Narrator as Revelator and Critic of the Postcolonial Condition inPurple Hibiscus

53

Chapter 3: Negotiating Nigeria: Connecting Chris Abani's GraceLand to Africa's Past

75