Research Catalog

Title

The literature and arts of the Niger Delta / edited by Tanure Ojaide and Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

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Additional Authors

• Ojaide, Tanure, 1948-
• Ojaruega, Enajite E. (Enajite Eseoghene)

Description

xiv, 280 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.

Summary

"This book examines the depiction of the Delta region of the Niger through literature and other cultural art forms. The Niger Delta of Nigeria has been thrust into the global limelight due to resource extraction and conflict, but it is also a region with a rich culture, environment, and heritage. The creative imagination of the area's artists has been fuelled by the area's pressing concerns of indigenous peoples, minority discourse, environmental degradation, climate change, multinational corporations' greed, dictatorship, and people's struggle for control of their resources. Taking a holistic approach to the Niger Delta experience, this book showcases artistic responses from literature, visual arts, and performances (such as masquerades, dances, and festivals). Chapters cover authors, artists and performers such as Ben Okri, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Isidore Okpewho, J.P. Clark, and Bruce Onobrakpeya, as well as topics like the famous Benin bronze figures and Urhobo Udje dance. Affirming the wealth and diversity of the region which continues to inspire creative artistic productions, The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta will be of interest to researchers of African literature, arts, and other cultural productions"--

Series Statement

Routledge contemporary Africa

Uniform Title

Routledge contemporary Africa series.

Subject

• Arts, Nigerian > Nigeria > Niger River Delta
• Nigerian literature > Nigeria > Niger River Delta > History and criticism
• Arts, Nigerian
• Manners and customs
• Nigerian literature
• Niger River Delta (Nigeria) > Social life and customs
• Nigeria > Niger River Delta

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Tanure Ojaide and Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega -- Towards a Bio-regional, Politico-Historical, and Socio-Cultural Identity of the Niger Delta / Tanure Ojaide -- Form and Content of Ibibio Traditional Festivals: Ekpo, Ekpe and Mbopo / Effiok Bassey Uwatt -- Traditional Ijo Poetry / Imomotimi Armstrong -- The Cultural Aesthetics of Benin Traditional Festival Performances / Josephine Ebiuwa Abbe -- Urhobo Udje: An Indigenous Satiric Genre / Tanure Ojaide -- Benin Art: Changes Through Time and Space / Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba -- Urhobo Culture and Modernism: Configuring Mutual Reinforcements in the Art of Bruce Onobrakpeya / dele jegede -- Art for Land and Water: An Artistic Geography of the Western Niger Delta / Perkins Foss -- Cosmopolitans at One with Homeland: Niger Delta Popular Musicians from Rex Lawson and Victor Uwaifo to Omawumi and Burna Boy / Senayon Olaoluwa -- Explorations in Pidgin Poetry from the Niger Delta / Sunny Awhefeada -- "Warri No Dey Carry Last": The Niger Delta in Nigeria's Stand-Up Comedy Imaginary / James Tar Tsaaior -- Environmentalism in Modern Poetry of the Niger Delta / Onyemaechi Udumukwu -- Nature's Animism and its Appropriation in Niger Delta Poetry / Reuben Kehinde Akano -- Narrative Constructions of Eco-disharmony in Selected Niger Delta Novels / Saeedat Aliyu -- 'The perfection of chaos': Heeding the nostalgic imperative in selected works by Ben Okri / Rosemary Gray -- From the Niger Delta's Viewpoint: The Nigerian Civil War Literature / Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega -- Bearing Witness: A Taxonomy of Dissent in J.P. Clark-Bekederemo's Plays / Mabel Evwierhoma -- Representation of the Niger Delta in Nollywood / Gloria Ernest-Samuel -- Literature, Eco-activism and the Saro-Wiwa Imaginary / Sule Emmanuel Egya -- The Poetics of Place and the Niger Delta Minority Discourse in Festus Iyayi's Fiction / Mathias Orhero -- Passivity and Agency: The The Dillemma of Female Characters in Works of Zulu Sofola, Buchi Emecheta, and Tess Onwueme / Asabe Usman Kabir.

Call Number

Sc E 22-639

ISBN

• 9780367682897
• 0367682893

LCCN

2020049860

OCLC

1204140736

Title

The literature and arts of the Niger Delta / edited by Tanure Ojaide and Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge contemporary Africa

Routledge contemporary Africa series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE.

Added Author

Ojaide, Tanure, 1948- editor.

Ojaruega, Enajite E. (Enajite Eseoghene), editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-639