Scholarship and commitment : essays in honour of G.G. Darah / edited by Sunny I. Awhefeada, Enajite Ojaruega, Peter E. Omoko.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Darah, G. G., honouree.

Awhefeada, Sunny I., editor.

Ojaruega, Enajite E. (Enajite Eseoghene), editor.

Omoko, Peter E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Darah, G. G.

Literature teachers--Nigeria.

Literature teachers.

Nigerian literature--History and criticism.

Nigerian literature.

African literature (English)--History and criticism.

African literature (English).

Nigeria.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

18 unnumbered pages, 503 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Essays in honour of G.G. Darah

Essays in honor of G.G. Darah

Place of Publication:

Lagos : Malthouse Press Limited, 2018.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Introduction and Tributes

1. G.G. Darah the Quintessential Scholar / Peter Omoko

2. The Tasks and Thrills of Minstrelsy: Reflections of a Poet / Tanure Ojaide

3. Godini Darah: Life, Literature and Limitless Commitment / Mabel Evwierhoma

4. Abiola Irele: A Tribute to the Master / Odia Ofeimun

5. Isidore Okpewho: A Portrait of the Scholar as an Artist / Sunny Awhefeada

6. The Eagle at Seventy 70 / Maltida Eyituoyo Ovie-Jack

pt. II Oral Literature, the New Media, Cultural Studies and Artistic Expressions

7. Folklore, Indigenous Epistemology and Legal Consciousness: The Yoruba Example / Oluwole Coker

8. The Limits of Autobiography: Silences, Ironies and Contradictions in Three Ogoni Self-Narratives / Remy Oriaku

9. Realism in the Performance of Princess Oyeghe: Binaries of Facts and Fantasy, Realism and Romance / Obakore Unuajohwofia

10. Bruce Onobrakpeya Envisaging the Concept of Akpo in Urhobo Mythology in Visual Form / Philomina U. Ofuafo

11. Oral Literature, G. G. Darah and the Urhobo Identity / Akpobome Diffre-Odiete

12. Urhobo Folklore and Udje Aesthetics in Tanure Ojaide's In the House of Words and Songs of Myself / Mathias Iroro Orhero

pt. III The African Woman, Identity and Contemporary Realities

13. Nigerian Female Writers and Societal Re-Engagement: Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Ifeoma Okoye's Men Without Ears / Felicia Ohwovoriole

14. Damaged Identities and their Restoration: Patriarchy as Social and Psychological Injustice in African Women's Novels / Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega

15. Contemporary African Women and the Complexities of Modernity in African Oral Poetry / Peter E. Omoko

16. Women, myth and heroism in Urhobo traditional festivals / Joy Aruoture Omoru

pt. IV Literary Theories, Inter-textuality and Criticism

17. Thoughts on Contemporary African Literary Criticism / Tony E. Afejuku

18. Re-Imag(in)ing and Re-Visioning an Alternative Aesthetic Tradition: the Marxist Critical School in Nigeria and Question of (Post)ldeology / James Tar Tsaaior

19. Consciousness and Re-awakening in Olu Obafemi's Illuminations / Sunny Awhefeada

20. Contemporary Niger Delta playwrights and the Re-righting of History / Peter E. Omoko

21. The Unfortunate Generation Writes Back: The Signifying Tears in Akeem Lasisi's Night Of My Flight / Yomi Olusegun-Joseph

22. Native Thought, Foreign Tongue: A Critique of the Poetry and Poetics of Niyi Osundare / Azeez Akinwumi Sesan

23. The Poetry of Tony Afejuku / Clement Eloghosa Odia

24. Anger and Agitation in Nduka Otiono's Voices in The Rainbow and Ebi Yeibo's The Forbidden Tongue / Oghenekaro Eneriakpoze

25. Mutation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Novels: A Study of Devil on The Cross and Wizard of the Crow / Emmanuel Oritsema

pt. V Popular Literature, Politics and Minority Discourses

26. African China and the Burden of Nationhood / Macaulay Mowarin

27. "The Kaiama Declaration" and the Quest for Fair Play in Niger-Delta Discourse / Kehinde A. Ayoola

28. The Impact of Hotels/Night Clubs in the Development of Popular Music in Nigeria / Arugha Aboyowa Ogisi

29. Popular Songs as Literary Texts: An Analysis of Fuji Songs / Abiodun Adeniji

30. Schizophrenia as a Satiric Mask in Niyi Adebanjo's A Monologue on the Dunghill / Stephen E. Kekeghe

31. Naming as an Indication of Characters' Roles in African Novel: The Case of Chinua Achebe and Elechi Amadi's Novels / Monday O. Akpojisheri

32. Towards the Attainment of Millennium Development Goals and Role of Literature: A Study of Two West African Novels / Mark O. Ogbinaka

pt. VI Linguistics, Language, Literature and Cultural Aesthetics

33. Nigerian Languages and the Threat of Extinction / Rose Oro Aziza

34. Utility of Linguistics in the Study of Literature / Karoh Ativie

35. Re-Visiting the National Language Question: the Nigerian Pidgin Nexus / Odirin Victor Abonyi

36. Pragmatics and Communicative Competence: English in a Second Language Environment and the Pedagogical Challenges / Maledo Richard Oliseyenum

37. A Minimalist Investigation of Absolute Tenses in English and Urhobo / Emmanuel Avwarosuoghene Mede

38. Idiosyncratic Dialect of Novice Speakers of Urhobo in Delta State University, Abraka / Emuobonuvie M. Ajiboye

39. Translation and Historical Allusion in Udje Song-Poetry of Urhobo / Eyankuaire Moses Darah

40. Contrastive Analysis of Kola Nut Presentation in Urhobo Culture / Eyankuaire Moses Darah

41. Le Fleau D'ivresse Alcoolique Dans Verre Casse D'alain Mabanckou / Kesiena J. Ekeugo

42. A Note on Lexical Nominalization in Urhobo / Philip O. Ekiugbo

43. Design Considerations for J. P. Clark's The Raft in Performance Context / Martins Uze E. Tugbokorowei.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

978555788X

9789785557886

OCLC:

1042883575

Publisher Number:

99989205848