RULERS AGAINST WRITERS, WRITERS AGAINST RULERS: THE FAILED PROMISE OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE IN POSTCOLONIAL NIGERIAN FICTION
by Dr. Ayo Kehinde
The term 'Public Sphere', viewed from the perspective of literature, is notoriously a slippery concept, designating, as it does, a form of art, a spirit, a purpose and a tone. For many years, much thought on this topic has been influenced by Jurgen Habermas, who proposes that, in eighteenth-century England, middle-class citizens began to see themselves as effective members of a rational public.
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