Chris Abani

This is the first full-length book on the work of 'global Igbo' writer Chris Abani. The volume dedicates a chapter to each of Abani's fiction books the two novellas <i>Becoming Abigail</i> (2006) and <i>Song for Night</i> (2007) the three novels <i>GraceLand</i> (2004) <i>The Virgin of Flames</i> (2007) and <i>The Secret History of Las Vegas </i>(2014) which are read against the grain of Abani's most important essays and poetical production. By combining close readings and more theoretical reflections this volume provides a significant insight for both scholars and students interested in the literature produced by the emerging African voices in the twentieth-first century in the debate about human rights and in general in how aesthetics is deeply linked with ethics.