Chapter · January 1, 2024
Born in Barbados but brought up in Nigeria and South Africa, Yewande Omotoso’s fiction presents a profound and multi-directional logic of the experience of diasporic identity. Her fiction paints the imagination of not only multiple but also “intersecting” ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Dynamics · January 1, 2021
This special issue introduction maps the trajectories, histories, ecologies and genealogies of small magazine production and circulation in Africa, within the broader contexts of print cultural histories that frame intellectual, political and cultural comm ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2020
David Damrosch’s conception of world literature as “literary works that circulate beyond their culture of origin” (2003, 4) has become an influential perspective in thinking about world literature. However, this circulation model, a major conceptual approa ...
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Journal ArticleMatatu · January 1, 2014
In foregrounding the literary chronotopes of space and time, this essay examines the place of Nsukka in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus as a significant toponym of meaning. As part of the narrative cartography of meaning informed by authorial no ...
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Journal ArticleResearch in African Literatures · January 1, 2014
This essay reads the abiku figure in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl (2005) in its new context of migration. This context, read as diasporic, provides a framework in which the abiku child confronts structures of racialized interpretation. Oyeyemi’s novel i ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2012
The epigraph defines Bakhtin’s idea of the literary chronotope, which is characterized by the intersection and connectedness of the elements of space and time that form the textual plane where meanings can be mapped out in the novel.2 In the representation ...
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Journal ArticleEnglish Academy Review · October 1, 2011
Studies of the Nigerian civil war have examined the notion of war fronts and home fronts as reflective of gendered representations of the war. Others have critiqued these representations as informed by the anxieties of the elite - the military, business an ...
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Journal ArticleEnglish Academy Review · January 1, 2009
The current blossoming of fiction in contemporary Nigeria is, as many critics have pointed out, creating a ‘third generation’ of Nigerian literature. Defined using Waberi's (1998) famous words ‘children of the postcolony’, this writing is actually informed ...
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