NDLI: How to be a writer in your 30s in Lagos

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How to be a writer in your 30s in Lagos

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Author	Jones, Rebecca
Copyright Year	2019
Description	This chapter explores the ways that literary scholars might take self-help texts seriously, through a focus on Lape Soetan's self-help e-books alongside self-help literature from across the African continent. While the contemporary boom in self-help literature may invite a reading of the genre as 'new', it in fact has long literary roots in the African continent. Lape Soetan's focus on gender, love and relationships aligns her with a time-honoured tradition in African self-help literature. While business and prosperity texts are ever-popular amongst African readers, books concerned with marriage, relationships and sex are also published and consumed widely across Africa. In offering solutions to the problems of everyday life, self-help texts often encourage their readers to make progress in life. This emphasis on personal progress leads Newell to suggest that many West African self-help texts adopt a similar approach to American self-help literature, which helps the reader to imagine 'a future where a successful, self-created self exists in a happier state'. Book Name: Routledge Handbook of African Literature
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Ending Page	153
Page Count	15
Starting Page	139
DOI	10.4324/9781315229546-10
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2019-03-13
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: Routledge Handbook of African Literature Classics Help Texts Help Literature Continent Readers African Literary Soetan
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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