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Journal articles on the topic "Nigerian writers. Texts"

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Kehinde, Ayo. "Rulers agains writers, writers against rules : the failed promise of the public sphere in postcolonial Nigerian fiction." Journal of English Studies 8 (May 29, 2010): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.18172/jes.149.

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Various literary critics have dwelt on the nature, tenets and trends of commitment in Nigerian literature. However, there is paucity of studies on the imaginative narration of the impediments facing the actualization of the public sphere in postcolonial Nigeria. This paper examines the strategies and techniques of representing the failed promise of the public sphere in postcolonial Nigerian fiction, using the examples provided by Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah, Ben Okri’s The Famished Road and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. The methodology involves a close reading of the
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Ojo, Oluwasola Emmanuel. "Hedges and Boosters as Modality Markers: An Analysis of Nigerian and American Editorials." k@ta 22, no. 2 (2020): 55–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.9744/kata.22.2.55-62.

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Many studies have been carried out on the use of hedges and boosters as persuasive strategies, but little is known about their employment when texts such as editorials are compared cross culturally. This study comparatively examined the employment of modality markers to express doubt and conviction in Nigerian and American editorials. Farrokhi and Emami’s (2008) classification of hedges and boosters was employed to analyze twenty editorials selected from two Nigerian newspapers and two American newspapers. Findings reveal that both sets of editorial writers made use of hedges and boosters a lo
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Falola, Toyin. "Nigerian Translingualism: Negotiation and Desirability of Language in Nigerian Literature." Yoruba Studies Review 7, no. 1 (2022): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/ysr.v7i1.131429.

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The power to communicate effectively and the politics of language were over the years intertwined, compelling writers used foreign languages to reach a wider audience, make sense of our world, describe different worlds, and create other experiences. Translingualism is also like a bridge for readers who cannot speak an author’s native language. The adoption of literary translingualism is a knotted discourse, but the texts of Wole Soyinka, Amos Tutuola, Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, and Chimamanda Adichie reviewed to examine this loosely defined term. This essay dissects the essence of literary trans
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Afejuku, Tony E., and E. B. Adeleke. "Myths, Legends, and Contemporary Nigerian Theatre." Matatu 49, no. 1 (2017): 54–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04901004.

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Femi Osofisan belongs to the new breed of writers, inadequately referred to as the ‘second generation of writers’. An accomplished writer whose works include plays, poems, essays, and novels, Osofisan is widely regarded as the most significant playwright in Africa after Soyinka. As a committed playwright, Osofisan focuses on the reappraisal of his immediate society and the challenges of living in this society. He calls attention to all that is undesirable in the politics, economy, and religion of contemporary Nigeria and asks for a change of attitude which, hopefully, will bring sanity to the
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Adeyemi, Remilekun Iyabo. "I’m part of the collective: exploring the influence of L1 culture on communal representation through the use of we, us and our in Nigerian undergraduates’ written texts." Journal for Language Teaching 53, no. 2 (2021): 53–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jlt.v53i2.3.

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This study explores the influence of L1 culture on Nigerian tertiary learners’ use of first-person plural personal pronouns we, us and our in written texts to indicate the collective, i.e., the writers’ social community. The quantitative and semantic analysis of the learners’ use of the pronouns was done using the Nigerian learner English corpus (NLEC) in comparison to Louvain corpus of native English student essays (LOCNESS). The quantitative analysis indicates the overuse of first-person plural pronouns by Nigerian learners compared to their LOCNESS counterparts. The study reports on the sem
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Ugochukwu, Françoise. "Essays in Honour of Wole Soyinka at 80, Ivor Agyeman-Duah (Ed.) - book review." Issue 1 1, no. 1 (2018): 107–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.31920/2516-2713/2018/v1n1a7.

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Wole Soyinka, best known as a Nigerian writer, playwright and Nobel laureate, has been a staunch supporter of the Nigerian cinema, and one of his plays, Death and the King’s horseman, is currently in the process of being adapted to the screen. He embodies the link between the Nigerian society, Yoruba culture and Nollywood. This book of essays in honour of Wole Soyinka’s life and works, offered to him on his 80th birthday, brings together a good number of contributions - short paragraphs, long essays, formal interviews, impromptu conversations and poems. The authors of these texts include a for
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AFEJUKU, TONY E., and E. B. ADELEKE. "Myths, Legends, and Contemporary Nigerian Theatre." Matatu 47, no. 1 (2016): 97–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-90000397.

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Femi Osofisan belongs to the new breed of writers, inadequately referred to as ‘second generation’. An accomplished writer whose works include plays, poems, essays and novels, Osofisan is widely regarded as the most significant playwright in Africa after Soyinka. As a committed playwright, Osofisan focuses on the reappraisal of his immediate society and the challenges of living in this society. He calls attention to all that is undesirable in the politics, economy, and religion of contemporary Nigeria and asks for a change of attitude which, hopefully, will bring sanity to the country. One of
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Opeyemi, Ajibola. "When it no longer matters whom you love: the politics of love and identity in Nigerian migrant fiction." Inkanyiso 13, no. 1 (2021): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ink.v13i1.13.

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A number of creative texts by Nigerian migrant writers recreate migrant characters’ experiences of love, intimacy and connected identity politics in the diaspora. However, there is a paucity of scholarly engagements with Nigerian migrant writers’ representation of the complexities that attend the formation and reconfiguration of migrant characters’ identity and love relationships outside the motherland. This study, therefore, examines the intersection of love, place and identity in three purposively selected texts – Segun Afolabi’s Goodbye Lucille, Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah and Unoma Azu
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Brown, Magdelene Aneetee, and Dr Patchainayagi S. "Cognitive Constructivist Theory of Multimedia for Appreciative Response: An Approach to Decode Sociolinguistic Appropriations in Texts’ of Nigeria." Webology 19, no. 1 (2022): 4232–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.14704/web/v19i1/web19279.

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The paper aims to explore Multimedia as a cognitive tool to enhance the study of appropriated texts of Nigeria and the sociolinguistic reasons behind appropriating the English language to carry the native's experiences. The writers of Nigeria deploy the strategies to reconstruct Africa's taunted imageries and cultures. An ethnographic study exposes the strategic method of representing authentic versions through abrogation. The article examines and re-evaluates, identified resistant strains that are consciously or unconsciously integrated in the texts, according to their level of contact with t
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Iwabi, Abraham Modahunsi. "CONTAINING SICKLE CELL ANAEMIA DISEASE AND INFANT MORTALITY THROUGH LITERARY TEXTS WITH HEALTH MOTIFS." International Journal of Novel Research in Humanity and Social Sciences 11, no. 3 (2024): 1–8. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11174018.

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<strong>Abstract:</strong> Nigeria occupies the highest position in the global epidemiology of sickle cell anaemia. This raises concern among some Nigerian writers and prompts them to make anaemic crisis the motif of their texts in order to create awareness that will reduce the number of anaemic patients. This study is delineated within the medical humanities to conscientise people to the portraiture of genotypic compatibility in literary texts. It aims at exploring literary dimension to curtailing the menace of sickle cell anaemia. The research elucidates the interface between literature and
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Books on the topic "Nigerian writers. Texts"

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Kendall, Judy. Inarticulacy in Creative Writing Practice and Translation. Edited by Jen Webb, Aviya Kushner, Julienne van Loon, et al. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350502383.

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An investigation intothe powerful effects occurring at the threshold between articulation and inarticulation in original and translated works, this book models how creative writing research, practice, processes, products and theories can further academic thought.At the threshold of in/articulacy, language can be said to ‘thicken’ and obscure the usual conditions of legibility or lexical meaning, becoming unfamiliar, flexible, incomplete, even absent. These ‘thickening’ moments alter and enrich literary processes and texts to initiate a paradigm shift in composition, translation and reading exp
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Book chapters on the topic "Nigerian writers. Texts"

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van Klinken, Adriaan, and Ezra Chitando. "Infinite Possibilities in a Nigerian Lesbian Love Story." In Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197619995.003.0010.

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Referring to the role of African literary writers as social critics, this chapter focuses on literary texts that enable a reimagination of Christianity and sexual diversity in contemporary Africa. As a case in point, it discusses the novel Under the Udala Trees by the Nigerian writer Chinelo Okparanta (2015). Set in the aftermath of the Biafra war (1967-70), the novel tells the love story between two young women. The chapter explores how Christianity is a central theme in the novel, in a twofold way. First, the novel narrates the ambivalent experiences of the protagonist with the church as a s
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Dini, Rachele. "Orwell, Afrofuturism, and Queer Speculative Fiction." In The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell. Oxford University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198860693.013.48.

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Abstract This chapter examines the legacy of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in a selection of queer speculative and Afrofuturist novels by British, Japanese, Ghanaian-American, Nigerian, and American writers published between the late 1970s and early 2020s. Kay Dick’s They (1977, reprinted 2022), Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police (1994; translated 2019), Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s ‘Zimmer Land’ (2018), Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift (2019), and Marisa Crane’s I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself (2023), I argue, dismantle the white supremacist, patriarchal, heteronormative, and western imperia
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Roszak, Suzanne Manizza. "Subversive Adventures and Intrepid Kids." In They Also Write for Kids. University Press of Mississippi, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496842916.003.0003.

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This chapter scrutinizes texts that draw on and repurpose conventions from within the vast and historically problematic genre of the children’s adventure story. In their cross-writing, James Baldwin, Mario Puzo, and Chinua Achebe take part in a contemporary movement that has used stories of children’s adventures as a subversive vehicle for protest. In the process, within narratives that extend from the midcentury United States to colonial and post-independence Nigeria, they tackle subjects ranging from toxic masculinity to the overrepresentation of white identities in children’s literature. In
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Jilani, Sarah. "History From Within: Violence and Subjective Experience in Ritwik Ghatak’s The Cloud-Capped Star and Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra." In Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and Film. Edinburgh University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781399507288.003.0005.

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This chapter explores how and why subjectivity is a key consideration for a significant subset of post-independence film and literatures that narrate events of mass-scale violence that followed, and were often related to, the circumstances of that independence. The Partition of India and the Nigerian Civil War are the contexts of this violence in, respectively, the Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak’s 1960 film The Cloud-Capped Star and the Nigerian Igbo writer Buchi Emecheta’s 1982 novel Destination Biafra. In bringing the two texts into conversation, this chapter seeks to make visible how Ghatak
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