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Investigator: Wendy Griswold
Population: Novelists
Identification method: Investigator identified novelists based on review of reference sources and bibliographies of Nigerian Novels.
Sampling procedure: The investigator identified 465 Nigerian novels produced between 1950 and 1990, by 253 novelists.
N and Response rate: approximately 50 percent (125 of 253)
Publication: Griswold, W. 1992. "The Writing on the Mud Wall: Nigerian Novels and the Imaginary Village." American Sociological Review 57: 709-24.
Summary: Study of Nigerian novelists used to investigate the commonalties and differences in the Nigerian literary system before and after independence. Griswold (1992) uses the case of village novels to illustrate the impact of global cultural production systems on aesthetic creation.