Language And The Construction Of Multiple Identities In The Nigerian Novel

Author : Aboh, Romanus
Publisher : NISC (Pty) Ltd
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781920033293

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Language and the Construction of Multiple Identities in the Nigerian Novel by Aboh, Romanus Pdf

Language and the construction of multiple identities in the Nigerian novel examines the multifaceted relation between people and the various identities they construct for themselves and for others through the context-specific ways they use language. Specifically, this book pays attention to how forms of identities – ethnic, cultural, national and gender – are constructed through the use of language in select novels of Adichie, Atta and Betiang. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book draws analytical insights from critical discourse analysis, literary discourse analysis and socio-ethno-linguistic analysis. This approach enables the author to engage with the novels, to illuminate the link between the ways Nigerians use language and the identities they construct. Being a context-driven analysis, this book critically scrutinises literary language beyond stylistic borders by interrogating the micro and macro levels of language use, a core analytical paradigm frequently used by discourse analysts who engage in critical discourse analysis.

Author : Romanus Aboh
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781920033354

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Language and the Construction of Multiple Identities in the Nigerian Novel by Romanus Aboh Pdf

Language and the construction of multiple identities in the Nigerian novel examines the multifaceted relation between people and the various identities they construct for themselves and for others through the context-specific ways they use language. Specifically, this book pays attention to how forms of identities ethnic, cultural, national and gender are constructed through the use of language in select novels of Adichie, Atta and Betiang. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book draws analytical insights from critical discourse analysis, literary discourse analysis and socio-ethno-linguistic analysis. This approach enables the author to engage with the novels, to illuminate the link between the ways Nigerians use language and the identities they construct. Being a context-driven analysis, this book critically scrutinises literary language beyond stylistic borders by interrogating the micro and macro levels of language use, a core analytical paradigm frequently used by discourse analysts who engage in critical discourse analysis.

Author : John Middleton,Kimani Njogu
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780253222015

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Media and Identity in Africa by John Middleton,Kimani Njogu Pdf

What is the role of the media in Africa? How do they work? How do they interact with global media? How do they reflect and express local culture? Incorporating both African and international perspectives, Media and Identity in Africa demonstrates how media outlets are used to perpetuate, question, or modify the unequal power relations between Africa and the rest of the world. Discussions about the construction of old and new social entities which are defined by class, gender, ethnicity, political and economic differences, wealth, poverty, cultural behavior, language, and religion dominate these new assessments of communications media in Africa. This volume addresses the tensions between the global and the local that have inspired creative control and use of traditional and modern forms of media.

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385474542

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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Pdf

“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.

Author : J. Joseph
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230503427

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Language and Identity by J. Joseph Pdf

Offering a uniquely broad-based overview of the role of language choice in the construction of national, ethnic and religious identity, this textbook examines a wide range of specific cases from various parts of the world in order to arrive at some general principles concerning the links between language and identity. It will benefit students and researchers in a wide range of fields where identity is an important issue and who currently lack a single source to turn to for an overview of sociolinguistics.

Author : Liwhu Betiang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114487759

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Beneath the Rubble by Liwhu Betiang Pdf

Author : John Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139483285

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Language and Identity by John Edwards Pdf

The language we use forms an important part of our sense of who we are - of our identity. This book outlines the relationship between our identity as members of groups - ethnic, national, religious and gender - and the language varieties important to each group. What is a language? What is a dialect? Are there such things as language 'rights'? Must every national group have its own unique language? How have languages, large and small, been used to spread religious ideas? Why have particular religious and linguistic 'markers' been so central, singly or in combination, to the ways in which we think about ourselves and others? Using a rich variety of examples, the book highlights the linkages among languages, dialects and identities, with special attention given to religious, ethnic and national allegiances.

Author : Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri
Publisher : M & J Grand Orbit Communications
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789785416411

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Nigerian Languages, Literatures, Culture and Reforms by Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri Pdf

The papers in this volume were selected from the Silver Jubilee edition of the Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Nigerian (LAN) which was held at the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), Abuja, Nigeria. The Silver Jubilee edition is dedicated to the father of Nigerian Linguistics, Professor Emeritus Ayo Bamgbose. Professor Emeritus Bamgbose was the first indigenous Professor of Linguistics in Nigeria, and the first black African to teach linguistics in any known university south of the Sahara. He was there from the very beginning, and together with co-operation of people such as the late Professor Kay Williamson, he nurtured Nigerian linguistics. He is not just a foremost Nigerian linguist, but also a most famous, respected, celebrated, distinguished, and cherished African linguist of all times. To be candid, Nigerian linguistics is synonymous with Professor Emeritus Bamgbose. In 58 well-written chapters by experts in their fields, the book covers aspects of Nigerian languages, linguistics, literatures and culture. The papers have not been categorized into sections; rather they flow, hence there is some overlapping in the arrangement. The book is an essential resource for all who are interested to learn about current trends in the study of languages, linguistics and related subject-matters in Nigeria.

Author : Ozo-Mekuri Ndimele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1126 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9785644022

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Languages and Culture in Nigeria by Ozo-Mekuri Ndimele Pdf

Language and Culture in Nigeria contains 97 papers from a wide range of areas in Language and Linguistics written by colleagues, friends and former students of Professor Okon Essien. The collection fulfills a gap in the quest for a documented piece of work on the general pattern and structure of Nigerian names and is an invaluable material for comparative purposes. There are 19 papers in section A focusing mainly on various aspects of sociolinguistics and the role of language in society. Section B comprises 24 papers which fall in the area of stylistics, literature and gender studies. Section C contains 21 papers focusing on applied areas of linguistics. Section D comprises 11 papers on information science and communication studies. Section E contains papers that focus on the formal areas of linguistics, i.e. phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax & semantics. Section F is on Okon Essien as a celebrity. It comprises papers which not only x-ray the contributions of the celebrity to the study of languages and linguistics in Nigeria, but also situate him in the context of other linguistic celebrities globally. Section F is rapped up with a collection of brilliant poems dedicated to Professor Okon Essien by the 'Ode Grandmaster', Dr. Obed Ojukwu. There is also an appendix at the end of the work which is Professor Okon Essien's intimidating curriculum vitae.

Author : Aboh, Rome
Publisher : Kraft Books
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789789182077

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A Torrent of Terror by Aboh, Rome Pdf

Rome Aboh's poetry unmistakably enwraps the condition of the politically and socially cannibalised segment of his society; and the beauty of the verse radiates from his facility with language as the stylist and linguist. The section "patriotism" with such poems as "hour of truth" aptly brings out the socially obligatory role of the poets whose mission goes beyond versifying and sharing their personal fantasies and urges. Similarly the poem "letter to the mp" echoes the agonies of the common masses who feel deceived by the ruling elite in their so-called democratic nations.

Author : E.E. Sule
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781803288765

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Sterile Sky by E.E. Sule Pdf

Winner of the 2013 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for African literature. E.E. Sule's debut novel, Sterile Sky, presents a community wrecked by religious conflict and a young boy hunting for a better future. On the day that Murtala comes of age, violent riots break out in his home city of Kano – leading to unspeakable tragedy within his own family. While chaos threatens to erase everything he holds dear, Murtala is stalked by monsters both real and imagined. A gifted student, he grows desperate to escape from the web of poverty and religious extremism that surrounds him. An immensely poignant and powerful novel, Sterile Sky captures the religious conflicts of modern Nigeria and the enduring hope for peace. 'An ambitious work that tells the definitive story of an important moment in Nigeria's sociopolitical history.' Sanya Osha

Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007588534

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Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah, Purple Hibiscus: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Three-Book Collection by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Pdf

‘A delicious, important novel’ The Times ‘Alert, alive and gripping’ Independent ‘Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both’ Guardian

Author : John F. McCauley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107175013

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The Logic of Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Africa by John F. McCauley Pdf

The book is aimed at students and scholars of conflict, Africa, ethnic politics, and religion. It may also appeal to religious and political leaders. It proposes a new perspective on how ethnicity and religion shape political outcomes and violence in Africa, adding psychological elements to standard political science arguments.

Author : Opio Dokotum
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781920033682

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Hollywood and Africa by Opio Dokotum Pdf

Hollywood and Africa - recycling the Dark Continent myth from 19082020 is a study of over a century of stereotypical Hollywood film productions about Africa. It argues that the myth of the Dark Continent continues to influence Western cultural productions about Africa as a cognitive-based system of knowledge, especially in history, literature and film. Hollywood and Africa identifies the colonial mastertext of the Dark Continent mythos by providing a historiographic genealogy and context for the terms development and consolidation. An array of literary and paraliterary film adaptation theories are employed to analyse the deep genetic strands of HollywoodAfrica film adaptations. The mutations of the Dark Continent mythos across time and space are then tracked through the classical, neoclassical and new wave HollywoodAfrica phases in order to illustrate how Hollywood productions about Africa recycle, revise, reframe, reinforce, transpose, interrogate and even critique these tropes of Darkest Africa while sustaining the colonial mastertext and rising cyberactivism against Hollywoods whitewashing of African history.

Author : Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0816624410

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The Invention of Women by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí Pdf

The author traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. THE INVENTION OF WOMEN demonstrates that biology as a rationale for organizing the social world is a Western construction not applicable in Yoruban culture where social organization was determined by relative age.