- Title
- Son of a dog
- Creator
- Kolawole, Samuel
- Subject
- Creative writing (Higher education) South Africa
- Subject
- South African fiction (English) 21st century
- Subject
- African fiction (English) 21st century
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/7195
- Identifier
- vital:21228
- Description
- Son of a Dog is inspired by a real-life figure whose exploits captured the Nigerian public imagination in the 1980s. Famously known as Ovbigbo (“The Law”), Lawrence Anini unleashed a nationwide reign of terror against law and order. Set against the backdrop of the political turmoil following the Nigerian civil war, the novel traces Anini’s formative years in menial jobs to his rise to the leadership of a notorious criminal gang. It fuses the established facts of his short meteoric career with my imagined version of his inner life and the contemporary myths that sprung up around his legend. It finally crosses the boundary between the real and the mythic as Lawrence Anini becomes truly invincible and elusive after a lust-struck encounter with a fantastical character. I draw inspiration from the dark visceral fiction of Michael Cisco and Brian Evenson, AyiKwei Armah’s unflinchingly descriptive prose and E.C. Osondu’s sharp contemporary humour.
- Format
- 159 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Humanities, Institute for the Study of English in Africa
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Kolawole, Samuel
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