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The literature and arts of the Niger Delta / edited by Tanure Ojaide and Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge contemporary Africa series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts, Nigerian--Nigeria--Niger River Delta.
- Arts, Nigerian.
- Nigerian literature--Nigeria--Niger River Delta--History and criticism.
- Nigerian literature.
- Niger River Delta (Nigeria)--Social life and customs.
- Niger River Delta (Nigeria).
- Nigeria--Niger River Delta.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Tanure Ojaide is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega is an Associate Professor of African Literature and Chair of the Department of English and Literary Studies at Delta State University, Nigeria.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Tanure Ojaide and Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega
- Towards a Bio-regional, Politico-Historical, and Socio-Cultural Identity of the Niger Delta / Tanure Ojaide
- Form and Content of Ibibio Traditional Festivals: Ekpo, Ekpe and Mbopo / Effiok Bassey Uwatt
- Traditional Ijo Poetry / Imomotimi Armstrong
- The Cultural Aesthetics of Benin Traditional Festival Performances / Josephine Ebiuwa Abbe
- Urhobo Udje: An Indigenous Satiric Genre / Tanure Ojaide
- Benin Art: Changes Through Time and Space / Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba
- Urhobo Culture and Modernism: Configuring Mutual Reinforcements in the Art of Bruce Onobrakpeya / dele jegede
- Art for Land and Water: An Artistic Geography of the Western Niger Delta / Perkins Foss
- Cosmopolitans at One with Homeland: Niger Delta Popular Musicians from Rex Lawson and Victor Uwaifo to Omawumi and Burna Boy / Senayon Olaoluwa
- Explorations in Pidgin Poetry from the Niger Delta / Sunny Awhefeada
- "Warri No Dey Carry Last": The Niger Delta in Nigeria's Stand-Up Comedy Imaginary / James Tar Tsaaior
- Environmentalism in Modern Poetry of the Niger Delta / Onyemaechi Udumukwu
- Nature's Animism and its Appropriation in Niger Delta Poetry / Reuben Kehinde Akano
- Narrative Constructions of Eco-disharmony in Selected Niger Delta Novels / Saeedat Aliyu
- 'The perfection of chaos': Heeding the nostalgic imperative in selected works by Ben Okri / Rosemary Gray
- From the Niger Delta's Viewpoint: The Nigerian Civil War Literature / Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega
- Bearing Witness: A Taxonomy of Dissent in J.P. Clark-Bekederemo's Plays / Mabel Evwierhoma
- Representation of the Niger Delta in Nollywood / Gloria Ernest-Samuel
- Literature, Eco-activism and the Saro-Wiwa Imaginary / Sule Emmanuel Egya
- The Poetics of Place and the Niger Delta Minority Discourse in Festus Iyayi's Fiction / Mathias Orhero
- Passivity and Agency: The The Dillemma of Female Characters in Works of Zulu Sofola, Buchi Emecheta, and Tess Onwueme / Asabe Usman Kabir.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 17, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Literature and arts of the Niger Delta.
- ISBN:
- 9781003136750
- 1003136753
- 9781000379051
- 1000379051
- 9781000379037
- 1000379035
- Publisher Number:
- 40030692278
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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