{"id":36215,"date":"2021-03-11T14:24:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T14:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/?p=36215"},"modified":"2024-08-09T07:41:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T11:41:19","slug":"prof-nduka-otionos-first-book-celebrates-25-years-with-a-new-anniversary-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2021\/prof-nduka-otionos-first-book-celebrates-25-years-with-a-new-anniversary-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Nduka Otiono’s First Book Celebrates 25 years with a New Anniversary Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Prof. Nduka Otiono’s First Book Celebrates 25 years with a New Anniversary Edition\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Professor Nduka Otiono’s<\/a> first book The Night Hides with a Knife<\/a><\/em> was first published in 1995. On April 8, 2021, a silver jubilee anniversary edition will be released. It will feature a new cover designed by Ifesinachi Nwadike<\/a> and a new Afterword<\/em> by author Frank Uche Mowah. Congratulations, Professor Otiono!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Praise for The Night Hides With a Knife<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA respectable collection of short stories written in elegant and piquant style and demonstrates profound insight into human psychology.\u201d
\u2014 Jury, ANA\/Spectrum Prize<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith this first collection of short stories, Nduka Otiono takes us on an impressive, multi-textual journey of resourcefulness and creativity that combines the best of the oral and scribal in Nigeria literary culture: traditional storytelling strategies and conventional narrative forms are overlaced with a fragmentary, postmodern reflexivity; the voice propels the pen, only to get trapped in the tape recorder\u201d
\u2014 Harry Garuba, poet and Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c…a synthesis of the archetypal forms of the oral tradition with modern urban realism.\u201d
\u2014 D.S. Izevbaye, Emeritus Professor of English and Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe issue in Nigerian fiction is no longer that of good and evil. Our experience in the postmodern and postcolonial times has driven us beyond those fringes. As The Night Hides with a Knife has clearly symbolized, the issue is that of the beautiful and the ugly, the dark and the light, a distinction which must remain foregrounded in the consciousness of every Nigerian in order to remind us of our vanishing beauty and dream as a people.\u201d
\u2014 Frank Uche Mowah, writer and former Head of Department of English, Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c…challenges the stereotype notion that modern African prose lacks experimental forms. The…collection defies, and indeed straddles genre classification.\u201d
\u2014 Monitor Review<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSeveral years of craftsmanship have transformed the ten short stories in this collection into gems of chiseled prose…In these stories, we see the dreams of an entire generation reaching up for the lights or sinking into the fetid swamp of the nation\u2019s grave.\u201d
\u2014 The Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is\u2026a deeply autobiographical tenor in the short stories, for they tend to proclaim the geography of Otiono\u2019s times\u2026 The greatest achievement\u2026is his deep and significant power of observation, in the surprising detail of his narrative.\u201d
\u2014 Vanguard<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Night Hides with a Knife is a collection of familiar and somewhat absurd experiences\u2026Nduka Otiono is unique because his exploration of experiences is stylized. In essence, he is a stylist at heart: manner matters a lot to him.\u201d
\u2014 TheNews magazine<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOtiono\u2019s painstaking assemblage of the loom of existence with its strands drawn from the nation’s socio-political realities is the staple of everyday life\u2026 By giving free reign to his imagination and inventiveness and by drawing on the rich and time-tested resources of the oral tradition and heritage of African literature, Otiono makes The Night Hides with a Knife an irresistible work in the narrative genre.\u201d
\u2014 Weekend Times<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOtiono\u2019s ability to capture true life experiences manifests in stories like \u2018A Will to Survive\u2019, \u2018Wings of Rebellion\u2019…\u201d
\u2014 Sunday Times<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese stories are experimental, displaying an awareness of modern currents and a delicate narrative sensitivity to autochthonous structures\u2026 Part of the assets [Otiono] displays are his sharp, smooth-flowing prose and his sense of adventure and experimentation\u2026He is at his best when exploiting the structures of oral performance.\u201d
\u2014 Wumi Raji, author of Long Dreams in Short Chapters: Essays in African Postcolonial Literary, Cultural and Political Criticisms.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Nduka Otiono’s first book The Night Hides with a Knife was first published in 1995. On April 8, 2021, a silver jubilee anniversary edition will be released. It will feature a new cover designed by Ifesinachi Nwadike and a new Afterword by author Frank Uche Mowah. Congratulations, Professor Otiono! Praise for The Night Hides […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-african-studies"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36215"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36550,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36215\/revisions\/36550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}