Literary and linguistic perspectives on orality, literacy and gender studies

a celebration of Oluwatoyin Jegede @ 60

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Literary and linguistic perspectives on orality, literacy and gender studies

a celebration of Oluwatoyin Jegede @ 60

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Table of Contents

section A.
Oluwatoyin Jegede and literary enhancement.
The Literary Enhancement and Achievement Project (LEAP) and the pioneering role of Professor Toyin Jegede -- Chukwuemeka Eze Onukaogu. -- section B.
Postcolonial and feminist orientations.
Relevance and prospects of feminism in Africa -- V.O. Adefarasin
Theorising Nigerian feminisms : a reflection on the controversies surrounding the (ir)relevance of mainstream feminism to cultures other than the West -- Sandra Chinyeaka Nwokocha
Negotiating war, trauma and the banality of evil : narrative aesthetics and the representation of PTSD in Beasts of No Nation -- Emmanuel Babatunde Omobowale & Sakiru Damilare Adebayo
Male other, female self and post-feminist consciousness in Sembène Ousmane's God's Bits of Wood and Flora Nwapa's Efuru -- Idowu Emmanuel Adeniyi
Family disintegration in selected female writers' novels -- Akinbimpe Akintayo Akinyele
Feminist echoes and change in Wumi Raji's Another Life -- Taiwo Austin Stanley Osanyemi
Traditionally-inclined tales and ecological issues in African prose narratives for children -- Helen Idowu Adhuze
A universe of conflict and travailing humanity in the poetry of Uwemedimo Enobong Iwoketok -- David Ekanem Udoinwang & Ima Usen Immanuel
Representation of female migrants in selected Nigerian migrant narratives -- Opeyemi Ajibola
Neocolonialism and kleptocracy in contemporary Nigeria : the example of Tunde Fatunde's No More Oil Boom -- Nurudeen Lawal
Beyond gender allegory : a postcolonial reading of Lola Shoneyin's poetry -- Gabriel Bámgbósẹ́.
section C.
Womanhood, womanism and women liberation.
Culture shift and Simisola Ogunleye's (Simi's) conception of the millennial African woman in Love Don't Care and Joromi -- Adidemi Olufemi Adebayo
Causes, effects, and feminist antidotes to trafficking in Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon -- Mary B. Aiyetoro & Valentine Chimenem Owhorodu
Ikwọ Ibaan Ibibio : expression of womanhood among Offot people of Akwa Ibom State -- Rebecca Okon Usoro
Patriarchy and illusion of women empowerment in Ahmed Yerima's Jakadiya -- Abigail Obiageli Eruaga
Voice of liberation : a womanist reading of Lynn Chukura's Archetyping -- Chizoba Bartholomew Akpah
Let us make woman in our image : preliminary notes on beauty and its industry in Nigeria -- Ayo Adeduntan & Fadekemi Olawoye.
section D.
Oral poetry, narratives and performance.
Yoruba folktale as literary expression of dissent against repression -- Wale Adegbite & Adebayo Adegbite
A critique of the cultural, linguistic and religious symbolism of oríkì among the Yorùbá of Nigeria -- Òkéwándé Olúwọlé Tẹ́wọ́gboyè
A didactic adaptation of varying tunes of Ere Olomoba and Yungba chants -- Reuben Kehinde Akano
Transformative themes in Hausa lullabies : the case of Hausa speakers in Wukari, Taraba State -- Maryam Yusuf Magaji
Oral cultural narratives and the challenges before Nigerian women writers -- Rotimi Anne Olatunji
African folklore : cultural heritage for sustainable development in the contemporary society -- Sikiru Adeyemi Ogundokun
The folkloric tradition and the female characters in Efua T. Sutherland's and Ama Ata Aidoo's plays -- Nureni Oyewole Fadare
Oral performance techniques in the works of D. O. Fágúnwà -- Olanike Olaleru
Orature in the digital world -- Joseph Bankola Ola-Koyi.
section E.
Sexuality and masculinity.
Sex, sexuality and power relation in K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen Cents and the Quiet Violence of Dreams -- Kazeem Adebiyi-Adelabu
Surveying sexuality(ies) representation in African writings : version, subversion, and conversion -- Saliou Dione
The portrayal of homosexuality in Jude Dibia's Walking with Shadows -- Ebunoluwa Mobolanle Sotunsa & Festus Alabi
Sexuality, morality and identity construction in Jude Dibia's Walking with Shadows -- Azeez Akinwumi Sesan
Continuity and discontinuity : masculinity and power blocs in Tunde Kelani's Saworoide -- Sunday Joseph Ayodabo
The illusion of male archetype : a comparative study of Irene's More Than Dancing and Pearl's Flyin' West -- Francis O. Jegede & Ebunoluwa M. Sotunsa
Negotiating patriarchal structures : polygamy and female agency in Lola Shoneyin's The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives -- Emmanuel Abiola
Re-inforcing traditional models of masculinities in selected Nigerian Pidgin adverts -- Adebisi A. Ogungbesan.
section F.
Language and linguistic choices in African literature and politics.
Expressions of political consciousness in Wole Soyinka's Alapata Apata and Femi Osofisan's Morountodun : a pragma-stylistic analysis -- Ayo Osisanwo & Muideen Adekunle
Discursive construction of sexuality and sexual orientations in Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah -- Akinleye Ayinuola Ojo
Linguistic strategies in the translation of proverbs in literary texts : Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman and Akinwumi Isola's Ikú Olókùn-Ẹṣin -- Omotola Latifat Okunlola
Politeness in political contest : the 2015 Oyo State gubernatorial debate -- Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose. -- section G. A tip from the honouree's academic fecundity.
Subversive (re)writing and poetics in Lola Shoneyin's So All the Time I Was Sitting on an Egg -- Oluwatoyin Jegede.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
Other Titles
Celebration of Oluwatoyin Jegede @ 60, Celebration of Oluwatoyin Jegede at 60
Copyright Date
2018

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Library of Congress
PR9387 .L57 2018

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Pagination
xxiv, 626 pages
Number of pages
626

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Open Library
OL44388065M
ISBN 10
9789185251
ISBN 13
9789789185252
OCLC/WorldCat
1089837177

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