These are articles published in journals by academics staff ir.bowen.edu.ng:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/267 2026-04-06T21:31:47Z 2026-04-06T21:31:47Z Aiyetoro, Mary Bosede ir.bowen.edu.ng:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/2602 2024-12-13T13:48:48Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Exile and the making of new homes in Segun Afolabi’s A life elsewhere and Chimamanda Adichie’s The thing around your neck Authors: Aiyetoro, Mary Bosede Abstract: This paper explores migration, exile and exilic awareness in Segun Afolabi’s collection of short stories "A Life Elsewhere" and Chimamanda’s "The Thing Around Your Neck", against the backdrop where the common conception of exile relates to absence from one’s homeland, that is, an erasure of one’s physical presence from his or her native landscape. Consequently, his essay delves deep to unravel the literary vision of Afolabi and Chimamanda, by submitting that Afolabi’s short stories offer deep interpretative insights into the phenomenon of exile from a male’s perspective while Adichie’s unravel the immigrant experience and cultural alienation following migration from a female’s perspective. These stories reveal that exile transcends the physical state to psychological displacement (loss, loneliness and disorientation) which does not necessarily imply physical absence from home. Taken together, the essay also problematises the concept of home. It affirms that while home could be the physical territory where a character finds solace, it could also entail a state of mind which affords one the opportunity to create that which has been lost and which is impossible to experience in tangible terms. Through a comparative approach, the essay analyses the differences and similarities in the themes, subject matter, style and narrative technique employed by Afolabi and Adichie in their novels.

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Aiyetoro, Mary Bosede Omobowale, Emmanuel Babatunde ir.bowen.edu.ng:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/2601 2024-12-13T13:34:23Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: A diachronic survey of creative writing and publishing in Nigeria Authors: Aiyetoro, Mary Bosede; Omobowale, Emmanuel Babatunde Abstract: Most studies on the growth and evolution of Nigerian literature overlook the importance of the publishing firms in the making of this fast-growing corpus of literature. Without the role of publishers, literary voices would remain unheard. Yet, Nigerian literary space continues to experience the dearth of a comprehensive examination of the contribution of publishers in the emergence and sustenance of this literature. The aim of this study is to bring to the force the growth and evolution of literary publishing in Nigeria. The study begins with a survey of publishing by the missionary and early nationalists, to the evolution and impacts of multinational literary publishing firms in Nigerian literature, and then, to the rise of indigenous literary publishing houses in Nigeria. It is the intention of this study to foreground the inextricable bond between publishing and creative writing; and thus, placing literary publishing in a visible position in Nigerian literary space.

2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Aiyetoro, Mary Bosede Olaoye, Elizabeth Olubukola ir.bowen.edu.ng:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/2600 2024-12-13T13:16:14Z 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Afro-science fiction: A study of Nnendi Okorafor’s What Sunny saw in the flames and Lagoon Authors: Aiyetoro, Mary Bosede; Olaoye, Elizabeth Olubukola Abstract: This work juxtaposes traditional magical elements with science fictional materials. The paper specifically examines magical elements in the two novels of Nnedi Okorafor’s What Sunny Saw in Flames (2011) and African Science Fiction in her Lagoon (2014), considering the novelty of science fiction in Nigerian literature. The analysis reveals that both What Sunny Saw in Flames and Lagon thrive on Nigeria magical elements, especially as the author employs the myth of leopard-people to counter mystical stereotypes associated with albinism in Nigeria.

2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Aiyetoro, Mary Bosede ir.bowen.edu.ng:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/2599 2024-12-13T12:53:34Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Evolving representations of Sàngó: From script to screen in African drama Authors: Aiyetoro, Mary Bosede Abstract: This paper examines the representation of Sango myth in drama. In an attempt to retain Sango myth in Nigerian drama; there have been several creative efforts that have successfully adapted Sango myth from script to stage performance and finally to screen production. In this respect, the paper through New Historicist, Archetypal and postmodernist orientations, discusses the manifestation of Sango in the contemporary medium of video film; with example of Sango (1998) written by Wale Ogunyemi and produced by Femi Lasode. Following the trend of event from historical account of Samuel Johnson to Duro Ladipo’s Oba Koso (The King did not Hang) (1972) down to Wale Ogunyemi and Femi Lasode’s Sango (1998). Obviously, there are differences between the previous works which are scripts and stage performances, and media presentations. This is as a result of media opportunity, since film is always different from script and stage performance.

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