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Title

Literature, ideology, and society : essays in honour of Abiola Irele / edited by Aduke Adebayo, Segun Odunuga.

Publication

Agodi, Ibadan [Nigeria] : AMD Publishers, c1998.

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Additional Authors

• Adebayo, Aduke.
• Odunuga, Segun.
• Irele, Abiola.

Description

xiv, 437 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Irele, Abiola
• African literature > History and criticism
• Literature and society > Africa
• Ideology and literature > Africa

Note

• Outgrowth of a symposium held May 22, 1996.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Reflections on the thought of Abiola Irele / Sanya Osha -- Alienation and the African scholar / Olusegun Oladipo -- The modern African critic and the public sphere : the example of Abiola Irele / Bukky Agunsoye and Dipo Irele -- The society and the man of letters : a personal encounter with Abiola Irele / Olalere Oladitan -- Reclaiming Africa's past for the future / Chris Okechukwu Uroh -- Sembene Ousmane, post-coloniality, and ideology / Aduke Adebayo -- Alienation, Parisian "Black beurs," and the literature of urgency / Pius Adesanmi -- Soyinka and Molière as social satirists / Matthew M. Umukoro --The literary artist as a social critic : Aminata Sow Fall's example / Joseph Ajibola Adeleke -- The quest for a better society in plays by Francophone West Africans / M.A. Johnson -- Women and political militancy in the West African novel / Julie Agbasiere -- Pessimism in the short stories of Guy de Maupassant and Birago Diop / Debo Adejumo -- Literature as a medium of cultural diplomacy : the African example / Niyi Osundare -- The second African diaspora in the context of travel history / Dan Izevbaye -- History, art, and ideology in the Olokun Esin plays / Philip Adedotun Ogundeji --Orality-ideology, dialectic in Wole Soyinka's Idanre and Ogun Abibiman / Sola Olorunyomi -- Inter(con)textual migrations : traditional epic hero and phases of transformation in the African novel / Ademola Omobewaji Dasylva -- Aspects of the use of language in African poetry : Soyinka, Clark, and Diop as case studies / 'Lekan Oyeleye -- Achebe on Conrad : the (post)colonial response / Aderemi Raji-Oyelade -- Representations of the ruling elite in recent Nigerian poetry / Oyeniyi Okunoye -- African urban women and romance literature : a feminist interpretation / Dipo Irele -- Art, mimesis, and ideology : George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four / Babatunde Omobowale -- The teaching of Francophone African literature / Joseph Ukoyen -- Linguistic and literary aspects of the Anglo/Francophone dichotomy / Anthony Biakolo -- The ideology of salvation in the religious experience of an African people : the Urhobo example / M.Y. Nabofa.

Call Number

Sc D 99-1323

ISBN

9782816604

OCLC

• 43500010
• 43500010

Title

Literature, ideology, and society : essays in honour of Abiola Irele / edited by Aduke Adebayo, Segun Odunuga.

Imprint

Agodi, Ibadan [Nigeria] : AMD Publishers, c1998.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Adebayo, Aduke.

Odunuga, Segun.

Irele, Abiola.

Research Call Number

Sc D 99-1323