No. 8 (2016): Journal of Literary Society of Nigeria (JLSN) Issue 8 June 2016

Journal of Literary Society of Nigeria (JLSN) Issue 8, June 2016

Published: 2025-02-25

Articles

The Ethnic Novel: Impediment or Facilitator of Nationhood? The Example of James Onyebuchi Ile’s Verses of Uncharted Heaven: The Second Coming of Biafra

DUL JOHNSON

1-14
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Myth and Symbol in Kofi Awoonor’s Poetic Art

ISAAC I. ELIMIMIAN

15-28
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Environmental Aesthetics in Olajire Olanlokun’s Children’s Poetry for Pleasure

FIRDAWS O. P-IBRAHIM

29-42
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Reconstructing Feminist Narrative for the 21th Century African Literary Interpretation: The Example of Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Snail-Sense Feminism

AKIN OLANIYI

43-60
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The Child-narrator as an Instrument of Criticism: Zee Edgell’s Beka Lamb

JULIA UDOFIA

61-76
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The Road Metaphor and Journey Motif in Zaynab Alkali’s The Virtuous Woman

FADARE, NURENI OYEWOLE

77-92
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Interrogating Misconceptions of Feminism in Tracy Chima Utoh’s Our Wives Have Gone Mad Again and Stella‘Dia Oyedepo’s The Rebellion of the Bumpy-chested

E.B. ADELEKE

93-110
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“Re-storying” the Ancestors and Us in Ojaide’s Selected Short Stories

PETER EMUEJEVOKE OMOKO

111-124
Multi-Culturalism in Abdullahi Abubakar’s A New Weft in the Loom, Citizens or Strangers and Corper’tion

FOLUKE ALIYU-IBRAHIM , SARAT A. SALIHU

125-138
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The Imagery of War in Chinua Achebe’s There was a Country

DANIEL IBRAHIM

139-152
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Of Ethnic Obsession and Female Identity: A Psychological Reading of The Last of the Strong Ones & The Joys of Motherhood

REUBEN KEHINDE AKANO

153-168
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A New Feminist Reading of Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives

MUHAMMAD ALKALI, KEHINDE JOHN OLORUNSHOLA

169-183
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The Nation, its Struggle and Perceptions of the Ethnic Novel in Helon Habila

YERIMA DINA

184-197
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Layers of Nationalism: The Dialectics of Nationhood and Ethnic Consciousness in Dul Johnson’s Deeper into the Night

ROSEMARY AJONE AJIBOGWU

198-212
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A Womanist Reading of Toni Morrison’s Paradise and The Bluest Eye

LINDA JUMAI MUSTAPHA

213-229
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Reflections of the Jos Crisis in Selected Short Stories of D. E. Kaze and Dul Johnson

LOMKA ILIYA KOPDIYA

230-240
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Doublethink, Society and the Gender Question in West African Video Narrative

DANIEL IBRAHIM

241-254
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Poetry as a Vehicle for the Promotion of Socio-political and Economic Development: The Examples of Sulaiman Wali and Salihu Kwantagora

LAWAL RABI’ATU

255-273
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Unbought and Unbossed: Reading Sexuality and Gender into an Ecological Other in May Ifeoma Nwoye’s Oil Cemetery

MUHAMMAD ALKALI

274-288
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Violence in Nigerian Politics: A Feminist Perspective of Esiaba Irobi’s Nwokedi

NONYELUM CHIBUZO MBA

289-302
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Cultural Revival and National Consciousness as Alternatives to Corruption in the 21st century: A Study of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood and Wizard of the Crow

MANASSEH TERWASE IORTYER, JOHN VENAP AUDU

303-315
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Indigenous Children’s Play-songs as Vital Tools for Ethnic Cohesion in Nigeria

PEACE SOROCHI LONGDET, LEAH JALO ILIYA

316-332
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Female Assertiveness in Ifeoma Okoye’s The Fourth World

ZAINAB ABDULKARIM

333-342
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Female Enslavement in Rezinat Muhammad’s Habiba and Veronica Phebe Jatau’s The Hound

AISHA M. UMAR

343-357
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Young Adults’ Problems in the Social Prose of Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani and Doreen Baingana: A Study of I Do Not Come to You by Chance and Tropical Fish: Tales From Entebbe

MAGDALINE MBAWASEN ORDUE

358-370
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Metaphors Amali Writes By: A Cognitive Stylistic Study of Efeega: War of Ants

BILKISU ADAMU

371-384
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