Dina Yerima-Avazi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1250136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dina Yerima-Avazi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dina |
| FAMILY NAME | Yerima-Avazi |
| SIGNATURE | YERIMA-AVAZI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nigeria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4713-8053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Bildungsroman hero as a peripheral subject in three Nigerian formation novels
This paper examines the trope of Bildungsroman in three Nigerian novels – Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow, E.E. Sule’s Sterile Sky and Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday. It shows how the young protagonists in these narratives negotiate their marginalised position, shaped by their age, class, and gender in the postcolonial Nigerian society represented in the novels. We argue that the characters’ peripheral socioeconomic conditions shape their psycholo…
Cross-Border Lingos, Environmental Consciousness and Sustainability in Isidore Okpewho's Tides and Aliyu Kamal's Fire in My Backyard
Negotiating Black Identity
This paper interrogates location as a fulcrum for hybrid identity creation for African characters in Africa, African Americans and African characters in the Diaspora. Over time, identity has been negotiated on the basis of race, ethnicity and religion. These are often linked to a specific place and find expression in definitions of culture, suggesting location as a necessary component of culture and, by extension, a major influence on identity. C…
Transcendent Kingdom (Yaa Gyasi)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Regimentation or Hybridity? Western Beauty Practices by Black Women in Adichie’s Americanah
The postcolonial subject is one whose life is rife with contradictions. These contradictions result from a torsion of Western and indigenous values and culture in the individual. The woman as a postcolonial subject seems to deal with more of these incongruities in almost every sphere as she negotiates life in the postcolony and other societies that facilitated colonization and still does in some aspects. Several writers have sought to capture the…
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Regimentation or Hybridity? Western Beauty Practices by Black Women in Adichie’s Americanah
The postcolonial subject is one whose life is rife with contradictions. These contradictions result from a torsion of Western and indigenous values and culture in the individual. The woman as a postcolonial subject seems to deal with more of these incongruities in almost every sphere as she negotiates life in the postcolony and other societies that facilitated colonization and still does in some aspects. Several writers have sought to capture the…
Transcendent Kingdom (Yaa Gyasi)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Negotiating Black Identity
This paper interrogates location as a fulcrum for hybrid identity creation for African characters in Africa, African Americans and African characters in the Diaspora. Over time, identity has been negotiated on the basis of race, ethnicity and religion. These are often linked to a specific place and find expression in definitions of culture, suggesting location as a necessary component of culture and, by extension, a major influence on identity. C…
Cross-Border Lingos, Environmental Consciousness and Sustainability in Isidore Okpewho's Tides and Aliyu Kamal's Fire in My Backyard
The Bildungsroman hero as a peripheral subject in three Nigerian formation novels
This paper examines the trope of Bildungsroman in three Nigerian novels – Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow, E.E. Sule’s Sterile Sky and Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday. It shows how the young protagonists in these narratives negotiate their marginalised position, shaped by their age, class, and gender in the postcolonial Nigerian society represented in the novels. We argue that the characters’ peripheral socioeconomic conditions shape their psycholo…
Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (5 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Hybridity (2 works) · Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics (2 works) · Subject (documents) (2 works) · Accreditation (1 works)