The crossroads: African literature and the emerging global cultures
Subtitle: essays in honour of Professor Ademola Dasylva, a literary scholar-critic
By: [edited by] Ayo Kehinde, Rotimi O. Fasan
Publisher: Galda Verlag
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Glienicke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9783941267701; 9783941267718
Subjects: Nigerian literature (English); History and criticism; African literature (English); Civilization
Notes: Festschrift.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Professor Oyeniyi Okunoye; title: Introduction  -- Ayo Kehinde & Rotimi O. Fasan -- section 1.; title: Gender identities, globalization and modern slavery.; title: Ambivalent empowerment : narrating modern-day slavery in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street  -- Bode Afolayan and Ayo Kehinde; title: Semiotics of transnational inflections on female African bodies  -- Omolola A. Ladele; title: Connected to the past : slavery as a muse for diaspora literature  -- Olumide Osagbemi. -- section 2.; title: Nationhood, trauma and dystopia.; title: Singing Songs of Ọdámolúgbẹ̀ with Christ and Marx  -- Olusegun Adekoya; title: Lexical innovation as resource for resistance identity in Songs of Odamolugbe  -- Romanus Aboh; title: Poetry as a weapon for social reconstruction : the example of Ademola Dasylva's Songs of Odamolugbe  -- Edward Oluwayomi; title: Of war and decadence : Ossie Enekwe's poetry  -- Sule E. Egya; title: Retrieving society : Gbenga Adeboye and the context of social critique in Nigeria  -- Adeshina Afolayan. -- section 3.; title: Performance context, ritual and media.; title: The Adowa dance as a medium for promoting the cultural heritage of the Asante people  -- Lydia Mmadu; title: Performance and theatricality in the Ebibi festival of Epe in Lagos State  -- Adebua Babatunde Olanrewaju and Sotunsa Mobolanle Ebunoluwa; title: Towards a type classification of Ẹwa-ọma festival performances of Nkporo, southeastern Nigeria  -- Anya U. Egwu; title: From the groove to cyberspace : Lagbaja and the technologizing of the mask  -- Yeku Afis Tunde; title: Oral tradition and Yoruba video films  -- Fasan, Rotimi Omoyele; title: African museums/music, literature and memory for culture imagination and social transformation  -- Nelson O. Fashina. -- section 4.; title: Canonicity, life writing and histories.; title: Is Dasylva among the womanists? A gender reading of Marvellous in Our Sight : a Biography of Deaconess Ajibike Florence Alabi-Ademuson  -- Yetunde Akorede and S.O. Dare; title: Collective history and the ethnography of Nigerian poetic-auto/biography  -- Ayodeji Isaac Shittu; title: Poetic travelogue in Remi Raji's Shuttlesongs: America  -- Stephen Ese Kekeghe; title: Nawal El Saadawi and J.M. Coetzee as African writers?  -- Iyabode Omolara Akewo Daniel; title: The unfortunate generation writes back : the signifying tears in Akeem Lasisi's Night of My Flight  -- Yomi Olusegun-Joseph. -- section 5.; title: Ideology and textual pedagogy.; title: "History has maimed us" : re-imagining Kwame Nkrumah's politics of African liberation through Femi Osofisan's The Conakry Dialogues  -- David Ekanem Udoinwang; title: Technology : mythical values at crossroads  -- Segun Omosule; title: Sources and development of written Yorùbá children's literature  -- A.B. Dasylva; title: Post(proverbs) as didactic vehicles in Nigerian children's literature  -- Oboli Blessing; title: Nigerian literature in English : the journey so far? -- Taye Awoyemi-Arayela.