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The Phenomenon Of Exile As A Mutant Strain In Nigerian Narratives, Ignatius Chukwumah
The Phenomenon Of Exile As A Mutant Strain In Nigerian Narratives, Ignatius Chukwumah
Ignatius Chukwumah
Nigerian narratives are usually given socio-historical readings. This means that critics ground them to their seeming inalienable social and historical contexts from where they are said to be derived. In the operation of historical contextual grounding, scant regard oftentimes is given to the image of exile. This article, therefore, takes up for a close reading, the exilic figure in Nigerian narratives. It notes, through analysis, that this figure is hugely mutative as it emerges from Nigerian mythic narratives; realistic works, with Soyinka’s The Interpreters as a prime example; and quasi-realistic texts, such as Okri’s The Famished Road and others. With …
The Figure With Recurrent Presence: The Defiant Hero In Nigerian Narratives, Ignatius Chukwumah
The Figure With Recurrent Presence: The Defiant Hero In Nigerian Narratives, Ignatius Chukwumah
Ignatius Chukwumah
ABSTRACT. Nigerian narratives always reveal corruption, disillusionment, mythological entities, political instability, cultural backgrounds and traditions of the tribes and nations used as context. Textual resources advertise literary works as realistic. In general, the recurring presence of the characters in these narratives is almost ignored. Unlike earlier interpretations of the Nigerian narratives, this essay is based on the theory of Frye’s five mimetic modes or categories. Based on the analysis of The Interpreters (SOYINKA, 1972) and The Famished Road (OKRI, 1992), this article examines the defiant hero as a recurring presence in Nigerian narratives. In fact, the hero is a character …
Mythic Displacement In Nigerian Narratives: An Introduction, Ignatius Chukwumah
Mythic Displacement In Nigerian Narratives: An Introduction, Ignatius Chukwumah
Ignatius Chukwumah
Abstract Five decades of resorting to humanistic critical procedures have bequeathed to the Nigerian critical practice the legacy of examining and discovering in Nigerian and African narratives the historical and social concepts of the time and times they are presumed to posit. These concepts include colonialism, corruption, war, political instability, and culture conflict. These procedures are undertaken without due regard to seeing the whole of the literary tradition as a stream out of which narratives emerge. This article, therefore, by way of introduction, seeks to retrieve Nigerian narratives from “every author” and humanistic critical approach by placing them in a …
The Displaced Male-Image In Kaine Agary’S Yellow-Yellow, Ignatius Chukwumah
The Displaced Male-Image In Kaine Agary’S Yellow-Yellow, Ignatius Chukwumah
Ignatius Chukwumah
It has been commonly asserted that Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow (2006) presents a sordid account of the deprivation of the protagonist’s subsistence livelihood by oil despoilment. This assertion is made without much regard to the repressed and manifest anxieties and desires profoundly induced in the novel’s central character by a male who is present, onto whom the absent male-figure is displaced. This article, therefore, investigates the provocations, corollaries, and correlations of the displaced male-image through its absence and presence and examines how the various offshoots of this image, whether as a father, lover, friend, autocrat or deliverer, are posited by the …
The Symbolism Of Pollution In Beloved And Things Fall Apart, Ignatius Chukwumah
The Symbolism Of Pollution In Beloved And Things Fall Apart, Ignatius Chukwumah
Ignatius Chukwumah
This paper examines the symbolism of pollution in various modes in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. He explains the symbolism of pollution as a mythic form contained and apprehended in literature. The interpretative procedure he uses is Ricoeur’s hermeneutics. As a probing instrument, it draws upon similar serial structures from these works exploring contrasts and aporias. Hermeneutics fits most because of the valued qualities of authorial distanciation, explication and readings derivable from majority of presences and textual existents. Of these readings, the symbolism of pollution grasped under the aspect of fear is the issue which exercises …