Chiji Akoma
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 373915 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Chiji Akoma |
| NOMBRES | Chiji |
| APELLIDO | Akoma |
| FIRMA | AKOMA C |
| AFILIACIONES | Villanova University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6354-115X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Language and Identity
Language shapes social realities, and also reflects socially constrained identity of an individual so much so that the relationship between language and identity is intertwined. The paper explores how women are represented in the Hindi proverbs. The portrayal of women in these proverbs is mainly negative; they are represented as being devilish, senseless, morally degenerated, and powerless. The study highlights proverbs extracted from the corpus …
Isidore Okpewho (1941-2016)
When Ediru, the elder son of Professor Isidore Okpewho, called to tell me that his father had passed away, I could only sigh in sorrow. The watch was over. His health had taken a sudden turn for the worse a few weeks earlier and we had kept watch as he battled for his life in the ICU. By the time he finally took his last breath on Sunday 4th September 2016, his immediate family and those close to them had been steeling themselves for the moment
Literary Creation and the Archives of Memory Through the Lens of Interculturality
The current issue of the Journal des Africanistes hosts a selection of papers from the 7th Conference of the International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA), held at the University of the Salento, Lecce, Italy, 1115 June 2008. Interculturality as a leitmotif of our times has emerged as a constant perspective in the approach of the scholars who contributed to the conference, in spite of the great differences in their cultural back…
Verbal Miscues or Cultural Agency? Icheoku
This paper examines the limits of British power in light of cultural and linguistic ambiguity in colonial Igbo society. Through humor, the interactions between the British District Commissioner and his Igbo court clerk and translator in the Nigerian drama Icheoku become opportunities to explore the notion of cultural agency through oral speech forms. Although Icheoku’s humor lies in the translator’s difficulty understanding the commissioner’s aff…
Griot with Attitude
Chiji Akoma, Griot with Attitude: Maryse Condé's "The Last of the African Kings" and New World Narrative Order, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 38, No. 3, The Preservation and Survival of African Oral Literature (Fall, 2007), pp. 112-121
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Griot with Attitude
Chiji Akoma, Griot with Attitude: Maryse Condé's "The Last of the African Kings" and New World Narrative Order, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 38, No. 3, The Preservation and Survival of African Oral Literature (Fall, 2007), pp. 112-121
Verbal Miscues or Cultural Agency? Icheoku
This paper examines the limits of British power in light of cultural and linguistic ambiguity in colonial Igbo society. Through humor, the interactions between the British District Commissioner and his Igbo court clerk and translator in the Nigerian drama Icheoku become opportunities to explore the notion of cultural agency through oral speech forms. Although Icheoku’s humor lies in the translator’s difficulty understanding the commissioner’s aff…
Literary Creation and the Archives of Memory Through the Lens of Interculturality
The current issue of the Journal des Africanistes hosts a selection of papers from the 7th Conference of the International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA), held at the University of the Salento, Lecce, Italy, 1115 June 2008. Interculturality as a leitmotif of our times has emerged as a constant perspective in the approach of the scholars who contributed to the conference, in spite of the great differences in their cultural back…
Isidore Okpewho (1941-2016)
When Ediru, the elder son of Professor Isidore Okpewho, called to tell me that his father had passed away, I could only sigh in sorrow. The watch was over. His health had taken a sudden turn for the worse a few weeks earlier and we had kept watch as he battled for his life in the ICU. By the time he finally took his last breath on Sunday 4th September 2016, his immediate family and those close to them had been steeling themselves for the moment
Language and Identity
Language shapes social realities, and also reflects socially constrained identity of an individual so much so that the relationship between language and identity is intertwined. The paper explores how women are represented in the Hindi proverbs. The portrayal of women in these proverbs is mainly negative; they are represented as being devilish, senseless, morally degenerated, and powerless. The study highlights proverbs extracted from the corpus …
Art (6 obras) · History (3 obras) · Literature (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · African history and culture studies (2 obras) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (2 obras) · History (2 obras) · Linguistics (2 obras) · Philosophy (2 obras) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 obras)