New media platforms are having profound effects on genres and modes of literary presentation this year. Graphic novels, young adult fiction and illustrated novels are transforming narrative forms as fiction by Nnendi Okorafor and Roy Okupe listed in the bibliography demonstrates. Chris Abani captures the general feature that defines creativity and temperament in West African Literature in his introduction to Lagos Noir, a collection of short stories by a new generation of Nigerian writers who have taken the literary stage in the last few years. Abani writes: “The thirteen stories that comprise this volume stretch the boundaries of ‘noir’ fiction, but each one of them fully captures the essence of noir, the unsettled darkness that continues to lurk in the city’s streets, alleys, and waterways”. Tomi Adeyemi, Akwaeke Emezi and Oyekan Braithwaite, all female writers who made their debuts in 2018, are stretching the boundaries of genres. Ayi Kwei Armah’s novel, Fragments, set in Ghana’s capital, Accra, has gained renewed critical attention. Uirak Kim comments how Armah “has taken a Western or ‘modernist’ literature [form] and adapted it to suit an African setting” in order to explore fragmentation and alienation as effects of “the reification of a corrupt neo-colonial state” (2) [see Criticism: Studies on Individual Writers]. There is a notable accent on trauma in the criticism of West African literature. This is significant to the extent that writers who do not have direct personal experiences of war or violence are depicting the aftereffects of memory in their treatment of trauma. Such writers include Cameroonian Léonora Miano and Nigerians Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chris Abani.

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今年，新媒体平台对文学呈现的体裁和模式产生了深远的影响。正如 Nnendi Okorafor 和 Roy Okupe 的小说在参考书目中所展示的那样，图画小说、青年小说和插图小说正在改变叙事形式。克里斯·阿巴尼 (Chris Abani) 在他对“黑色拉各斯”的介绍中捕捉到了定义西非文学中创造力和气质的一般特征，这是近年来登上文学舞台的新一代尼日利亚作家的短篇小说集。阿巴尼写道：“构成本卷的 13 个故事延伸了‘黑色’小说的界限，但每个故事都充分捕捉了黑色的本质，即继续潜伏在城市街道、小巷和水道中的不安的黑暗”。Tomi Adeyemi、Akwaeke Emezi 和 Oyekan Braithwaite，2018年出道的所有女作家，都在拓展流派的界限。以加纳首都阿克拉为背景的阿伊·奎·阿玛 (Ayi Kwei Armah) 的小说《碎片》(Fragments) 重新获得了评论界的关注。Uirak Kim 评论了 Armah 如何“采用西方或‘现代主义’文学[形式]并将其改编以适应非洲环境”，以探索分裂和异化作为“腐败的新殖民国家的具体化”的影响（2 ) [见批评：对个人作家的研究]。在对西非文学的批评中，创伤有一个显着的重点。这一点很重要，因为那些没有直接亲身经历过战争或暴力的作家在他们的创伤治疗中描绘了记忆的后遗症。这些作家包括喀麦隆人 Léonora Miano 和尼日利亚人 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 和 Chris Abani。