Iyunolu Osagie

Biographic Data

ID106099
NAMEIyunolu Osagie
GIVEN NAMESIyunolu
FAMILY NAMEOsagie
SIGNATUREOSAGIE I
AFFILIATIONSPennsylvania State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS19
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • The Man Died: Wole Soyinka’s imprisonment and the Yoruba trickster tale in Femi Euba’s Tortoise

    Iyunolu OsagieARTICLEAtlantic Studies2021References: 6

    Nigerian playwright Femi Euba utilizes the Yoruba trickster tale in his one-act play Tortoise! to satirize the imprisonment of Wole Soyinka during the Nigerian civil war of the 1960s. This essay draws parallels between Euba’s play and Soyinka’s play, The Detainee, which critiques the imprisonment of Chief Obafemi Awolowo by the Nigerian federal government a few years before Soyinka himself fell victim to the same alleged crime of treason. This es…

  • William Wells Brown: Fugitive subjectivity, travel writing, and the gaze

    Christine N Buzinde, Christine Buzinde et al.ARTICLECultural Studies2011

    Travel and travel writing imply freedom of mobility and agency. That a fugitive slave like William Wells Brown could become a tourist is significant because it destabilizes our understanding of tourism. In The American Fugitive in Europe: Sketches of Places and People Abroad (New York: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1855), Brown grounds his critique of his tour in the experiences of his early life as a slave and in his insistence on ethical respo…

  • Culture and postcolonial resistance

    Open AccessIyunolu Osagie, Christine N BuzindeARTICLEAnnals of Tourism Research2011Cited by: 14References: 17

  • Spirit of the Amistad: Figurations of Women in Echo of Lions

    Open AccessIyunolu OsagieARTICLECallaloo2009

    Spirit of the Amistad:Figurations of Women in Echo of Lions Iyunolu Osagie (bio) Artistic Context Steven Spielberg's 1996 movie, Amistad, brought world attention to the Amistad revolt of 1839. It also brought controversy to Barbara Chase-Riboud's nonfiction novel, Echo of Lions, which was published in 1989 to mark the 150th anniversary of the Amistad incident. Unlike her award-winning bestselling novel Sally Hemings (1979), Echo of Lions received…

  • The Amistad Revolt: Memory, Slavery, and the Politics of Identity in the United States and Sierra Leone

    Diedre L Badejo, Iyunolu Osagie et al.ARTICLEAfrican American Review2003

  • The Amistad Revolt: Memory, Slavery, and the Politics of Identity in the United States and Sierra Leone

    Douglas R Egerton, Iyunolu Osagie et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2001Cited by: 4

    The Amistad Revolt: Memory, Slavery, and the Politics Identity in the United States and Sierra Leone. By Iyunolu Folayan Osagie. (Athens: University Georgia Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 180. Illustrations. $35.00.) Few slave revolts in the western hemisphere enjoyed happy endings. Most rebels swung from the gibbet for the crime wanting to be free. But Sengbe Pieh (commonly known as Joseph Cinque after his Spanish owners changed his name to disguise his…

  • Masters of the Drum: Black Lit/Oratures across the Continuum

    Iyunolu Osagie, Iyunolu F Osagie et al.ARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…1998

    Journal Article Masters of the Drum: Black Lit/oratures Across the Continuum. Robert Elliot Fox. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. 180 pages. $49.95. Get access Masters of the Drum: Black Lit/oratures Across the Continuum. Robert Elliot Fox. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. 180 pages $49.95. Iyunolu F. Osagie Iyunolu F. Osagie Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volu…

  • Chap Am So: The Amistad Victory (review)

    Iyunolu Osagie, Iyunolu Folayan OsagieARTICLETheatre Journal1998Cited by: 1

    Reviewed by: Chap Am So: The Amistad Victory Iyunolu Folayan Osagie Chap Am So: The Amistad Victory. By John Thorpe. A Production of Network of Cultural Centers of Color. Harry De Jur Playhouse, New York City. 1 March 1997. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Spirit (Sharon Tsahai King) and Sengbe (Chet Anekwe) in Network of Cultural Centers of Color’s production of John Thorpe’s Chap Am So: The Amistad Victory, directed by Juliu…

  • Is Morrison Also among the Prophets: "Psychoanalytic" Strategies in Beloved

    Iyunolu OsagieARTICLEAfrican American Review1994