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Artistic Synergism And Disruptive Continuity In Nol Alembong's "The Beginning", Oscar C. Labang Jun 2015

Artistic Synergism And Disruptive Continuity In Nol Alembong's "The Beginning", Oscar C. Labang

Dr. Oscar C. Labang

The analytical trajectory of this paper narrows the general, complex and complicated spectrum of intertextuality discourses to a form of intertextual reworking and playfulness, which is called narrative intertextuality. It examines the intertextual matrix upon which the Anglophone Cameroon poet, Nol Alembong, engages a dialogue between texts from different cultural, mythological, philosophical and narratological perspectives. Through textual exegeses of the short poem “The Beginning”, this paper argues that Alembong develops a poetic narrative on the frame of older narratives not necessarily to invite the reader to contemplate the old text but intriguingly to situate the poetic piece within the collective …


Toward A Postcolonial African Ecopoetics, Oscar C. Labang May 2015

Toward A Postcolonial African Ecopoetics, Oscar C. Labang

Dr. Oscar C. Labang

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Humanization Of Forest: The Postcolonial African Ecopoetics Of Emmanuel Fru Doh, Oscar C. Labang May 2015

Humanization Of Forest: The Postcolonial African Ecopoetics Of Emmanuel Fru Doh, Oscar C. Labang

Dr. Oscar C. Labang

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The Poetics Of Existential Nihilism: Philosophical Inquiry Into The Devaluation Of Existence In W.H. Auden's Poetry, Oscar C. Labang May 2014

The Poetics Of Existential Nihilism: Philosophical Inquiry Into The Devaluation Of Existence In W.H. Auden's Poetry, Oscar C. Labang

Dr. Oscar C. Labang

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The Horrors Of A Disconnected Existence: Frustration, Despair And Alienation In The Poetry Of T. S. Eliot, Oscar C. Labang Jul 2010

The Horrors Of A Disconnected Existence: Frustration, Despair And Alienation In The Poetry Of T. S. Eliot, Oscar C. Labang

Dr. Oscar C. Labang

The expression of modern existence as a disconnected entity with shocking and distressful consequences is reflected in the writings of many modernist writers, but it seems to take centre stage in the poetry of T. S. Eliot. The decline of values and the multifarious problems of the twentieth century have caused modern man to create parentheses that detach them from each other, from society, from nature and even from themselves. This paper examines the horrifying consequences of life in a chaotic and disconnected universe on human existence from the perspectives of frustration, despair, and alienation. From a Structuralist theoretical standpoint, …