عنوان

Aesthetic Metamorphosis Oral Rhetoric in the Poetry of Tanure Ojaide

شماره

LA120148

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Aesthetic Metamorphosis Oral Rhetoric in the Poetry of Tanure Ojaide

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Ogaga Okuyade

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

The writer's imaginative craft is usually inspired and shaped by the environment s/he hails from. This in turn gives room for constant communication between the creative mind and the immediate physical social world; the environment becomes a determinant of the writer's experiences. The influence of the Urhobo oral tradition on the poetic corpus of Tanure Ojaide is remarkable. The poet's cultural background occupies a looming space in his choices of generic style. Close examination of Ojaide's poetry reveals the exploration and appropriation of the orature of the Urhobo people, which ranges from myth, folksongs, proverbs, riddles, indigenous rhythms to folktales. Ojaide deploys orature to criticize contemporary ills as well as to locate solutions for Nigeria's socio-economic problems. The aim of this essay is essentially to demonstrate that orality accounts for the distinctiveness of Ojaide's writing. Also interrogate is the mingling of the oral and written in Ojaide's art. This approach will, it is hoped, open up what has been a restricted economy, through the inscribing of orature as a cardinal and integral constituent of the poet's art. The writer's imaginative craft is usually inspired and shaped by the environment s/he hails from. This in turn gives room for constant communication between the creative mind and the immediate physical social world; the environment becomes a determinant of the writer's experiences. The influence of the Urhobo oral tradition on the poetic corpus of Tanure Ojaide is remarkable. The poet's cultural background occupies a looming space in his choices of generic style. Close examination of Ojaide's poetry reveals the exploration and appropriation of the orature of the Urhobo people, which ranges from myth, folksongs, proverbs, riddles, indigenous rhythms to folktales. Ojaide deploys orature to criticize contemporary ills as well as to locate solutions for Nigeria's socio-economic problems. The aim of this essay is essentially to demonstrate that orality accounts for the distinctiveness of Ojaide's writing. Also interrogate is the mingling of the oral and written in Ojaide's art. This approach will, it is hoped, open up what has been a restricted economy, through the inscribing of orature as a cardinal and integral constituent of the poet's art.

تاريخ نشر

2012

توصيف ظاهري

33-50

عنوان

Matatu

شماره جلد

40/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1875-7421

اصطلاح موضوعی

African Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Comparative Studies & World Literature

اصطلاح موضوعی

Criticism & Theory

اصطلاح موضوعی

Cultural History

اصطلاح موضوعی

Literature & Culture

اصطلاح موضوعی

Literature and Cultural Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Postcolonial Literature & Culture

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ogaga Okuyade

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/18757421-040001003

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y