The postcolonial lamp
Subtitle: essays in honour of Dan Izevbaye
By: edited by Aderemi Raji-Oyelade, Oyeniyi Okunoye
Publisher: Bookcraft
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ibadan, Nigeria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9789782030702
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: For Dan Izevbaye : literature and its 'others' in the developing world / Biodun Jeyifo; title: D.S. Izevbaye : critic of a dual mandate / J.O.J. Nwachukwu-Agbada; title: Africa, India, and the postcolonial : notes toward a praxis of infliction / Pius Adesanmi; title: Bondages of bonding : the challenge of literary criticism in the new age / Aderemi Raji-Oyelade; title: Modern African poetry as counter-discursive practice / Oyeniyi Okunoye; title: Elegy for the mystery cocks : modern African literature and the making of its classics / Osita Ezeliora; title: An appraisal of the critical legacies of the 1980s revolution in Nigerian poetry in English / Wole Ogundele; title: Reflections on the nature of canonical activity and its black paradigms / Wale Oyedele; title: The hero in Yeatsian dramaturgy / Dele Layiwola; title: Orality as text in mutation / Sola Olorunyomi; title: The poetics of possibility : a study of Femi Osofisan's The chattering and the song and Morountodun / Harry Garuba; title: Urban dislocation and postcolonial transformation in the plays of Femi Osofisan / Wumi Raji; title: The popular theatre and radical aesthetics of Femi Osofisan / Muhammed O. Bhadmus; title: 'Scarring public memory' : displacement, hybridity, and Wole Soyinka's The beatification of Area Boy / Laura Moss; title: Gynocentric aesthetics and democratic politics in Nigerian drama : a reading of Tess Onwueme's The reign of Wazobia and J.P. Clark's The wives' revolt / Gbemisola Remi Adeoti; title: The cracks in the wall and the colonial incursion : Things fall apart and Arrow of God as novels of resistance / Chima Anyadike; title: Discordant tongues : language and power in Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy / Akachi Ezeigbo; title: Retrying Ali A. Mazrui's The trial of Christopher Okigbo / Lekan Oyegoke; title: 'He said, She said' : gender and the metanarrative of Nigerian identity construction / Jane Bryce; title: "Living in the fast lane" : a comparative study of Amma Darko's Beyond the horizon and May Ifeoma Nwoye's Fetters and choices / Jude Aigbe Agho; title: Andre Brink and Malraux / Isidore Diala; title: 'The lost language of enlightenment' : Return to Algadez and the new Nigerian writing / Ismail Bala Garba; title: Identity and memory in Omoboyode Arowa's oriki performance in (Yoruba) Ekiti dialect / Ademola Omobewaji Dasylva; title: Of literary history and the critical tradition : an interview with Dan Izevbaye / Aderemi Raji-Oyelade and Oyeniyi Okunoye.