Literary and linguistic perspectives on orality, literacy and gender studies
Subtitle: a celebration of Oluwatoyin Jegede @ 60
By: edited by Ayo Osisanwo, Kazeem Adebiyi-Adelabu, Adebayo Mosobalaje
Contributors: Jegede, O. B., honouree, contributor
Publisher: Kraft Books Limited
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9789789185252
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Nigerian literature (English); History and criticism; Nigerian literature; African literature; Feminism in literature; Oral tradition in literature; Sex in literature; Nigeria; Africa; Literature; Oral literature; Women; Sexuality; Festschrifts (form)
Other titles: Celebration of Oluwatoyin Jegede @ 60; Celebration of Oluwatoyin Jegede at 60
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: section A.; title: Oluwatoyin Jegede and literary enhancement.; title: The Literary Enhancement and Achievement Project (LEAP) and the pioneering role of Professor Toyin Jegede  -- Chukwuemeka Eze Onukaogu. -- section B.; title: Postcolonial and feminist orientations.; title: Relevance and prospects of feminism in Africa  -- V.O. Adefarasin; title: Theorising Nigerian feminisms : a reflection on the controversies surrounding the (ir)relevance of mainstream feminism to cultures other than the West  -- Sandra Chinyeaka Nwokocha; title: 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; title: 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; title: Family disintegration in selected female writers' novels  -- Akinbimpe Akintayo Akinyele; title: Feminist echoes and change in Wumi Raji's Another Life  -- Taiwo Austin Stanley Osanyemi; title: Traditionally-inclined tales and ecological issues in African prose narratives for children  -- Helen Idowu Adhuze; title: A universe of conflict and travailing humanity in the poetry of Uwemedimo Enobong Iwoketok  -- David Ekanem Udoinwang & Ima Usen Immanuel; title: Representation of female migrants in selected Nigerian migrant narratives  -- Opeyemi Ajibola; title: Neocolonialism and kleptocracy in contemporary Nigeria : the example of Tunde Fatunde's No More Oil Boom  -- Nurudeen Lawal; title: Beyond gender allegory : a postcolonial reading of Lola Shoneyin's poetry -- Gabriel Bámgbósẹ́.; title: section C.; title: Womanhood, womanism and women liberation.; title: Culture shift and Simisola Ogunleye's (Simi's) conception of the millennial African woman in Love Don't Care and Joromi  -- Adidemi Olufemi Adebayo; title: Causes, effects, and feminist antidotes to trafficking in Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon  -- Mary B. Aiyetoro & Valentine Chimenem Owhorodu; title: Ikwọ Ibaan Ibibio : expression of womanhood among Offot people of Akwa Ibom State  -- Rebecca Okon Usoro; title: Patriarchy and illusion of women empowerment in Ahmed Yerima's Jakadiya  -- Abigail Obiageli Eruaga; title: Voice of liberation : a womanist reading of Lynn Chukura's Archetyping  -- Chizoba Bartholomew Akpah; title: Let us make woman in our image : preliminary notes on beauty and its industry in Nigeria -- Ayo Adeduntan & Fadekemi Olawoye.; title: section D.; title: Oral poetry, narratives and performance.; title: Yoruba folktale as literary expression of dissent against repression  -- Wale Adegbite & Adebayo Adegbite; title: A critique of the cultural, linguistic and religious symbolism of oríkì among the Yorùbá of Nigeria  -- Òkéwándé Olúwọlé Tẹ́wọ́gboyè; title: A didactic adaptation of varying tunes of Ere Olomoba and Yungba chants  -- Reuben Kehinde Akano; title: Transformative themes in Hausa lullabies : the case of Hausa speakers in Wukari, Taraba State  -- Maryam Yusuf Magaji; title: Oral cultural narratives and the challenges before Nigerian women writers  -- Rotimi Anne Olatunji; title: African folklore : cultural heritage for sustainable development in the contemporary society  -- Sikiru Adeyemi Ogundokun; title: The folkloric tradition and the female characters in Efua T. Sutherland's and Ama Ata Aidoo's plays  -- Nureni Oyewole Fadare; title: Oral performance techniques in the works of D. O. Fágúnwà  -- Olanike Olaleru; title: Orature in the digital world -- Joseph Bankola Ola-Koyi.; title: section E.; title: Sexuality and masculinity.; title: Sex, sexuality and power relation in K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen Cents and the Quiet Violence of Dreams  -- Kazeem Adebiyi-Adelabu; title: Surveying sexuality(ies) representation in African writings : version, subversion, and conversion  -- Saliou Dione; title: The portrayal of homosexuality in Jude Dibia's Walking with Shadows  -- Ebunoluwa Mobolanle Sotunsa & Festus Alabi; title: Sexuality, morality and identity construction in Jude Dibia's Walking with Shadows  -- Azeez Akinwumi Sesan; title: Continuity and discontinuity : masculinity and power blocs in Tunde Kelani's Saworoide  -- Sunday Joseph Ayodabo; title: 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; title: Negotiating patriarchal structures : polygamy and female agency in Lola Shoneyin's The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives  -- Emmanuel Abiola; title: Re-inforcing traditional models of masculinities in selected Nigerian Pidgin adverts -- Adebisi A. Ogungbesan.; title: section F.; title: Language and linguistic choices in African literature and politics.; title: Expressions of political consciousness in Wole Soyinka's Alapata Apata and Femi Osofisan's Morountodun : a pragma-stylistic analysis  -- Ayo Osisanwo & Muideen Adekunle; title: Discursive construction of sexuality and sexual orientations in Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah  -- Akinleye Ayinuola Ojo; title: 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; title: Politeness in political contest : the 2015 Oyo State gubernatorial debate  -- Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose. -- section G. A tip from the honouree's academic fecundity.; title: Subversive (re)writing and poetics in Lola Shoneyin's So All the Time I Was Sitting on an Egg -- Oluwatoyin Jegede.