Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi
Biographic Data
| ID | 194870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Taiwo Adetunji |
| FAMILY NAME | Osinubi |
| SIGNATURE | OSINUBI T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6979-6703 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sexual Intimacies in Literatures of the Black Diaspora
Book Review| January 01 2021 Sexual Intimacies in Literatures of the Black Diaspora Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora. Macharia, Keguro. New York: New York University Press, 2019. ix + 224 pp. Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi is associate professor of English studies at Western University, Canada. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2021) 27 (1): 161–164. http…
African Queer Autobiographics: Drama, Disclosure, and Pedagogy
This article explores the cultural politics and aesthetic forms of African life-writing anthologies that have recently become a platform for queer literary activism. Using Stories of Our Lives: Queer Narratives from Kenya as a case study, the author suggests that these emerging anthologies are vernacular theorizations of African queer conditions and represent important pedagogical tools. They disclose the conditions shaping emergent queer identit…
Queer Subjects in Kenyan Cinema: Reflections on Rafiki
Wanuri Kahiu's (2018) film, Rafiki, is an understated but confident contribution to emerging African queer cinema. Kahiu obviously worked with a limited budget: however, she portrays a same-sex rom
Chimeras of Form By Aarthi Vadde New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 288 pp
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An Intellectual History of African Literary Studies
Twenty-first-century African literary production has generated a number of conundrums for scholars invested in African literary studies as one recognizable field of study. Some of these conundrums drive Tejumola Olaniyan’s declaration of a post-global condition in African literary studies in “African Literature in the Post-Global Age.” Understanding that essay demands a detour through an intellectual history of African literary studies from about…
Tropicalizing Philip Quaque: On African Atlantic Literatures
Whereas slave narratives are classics of eighteenth-century studies, there has been scant attention to African eighteenth-century writing written by parties implicated in the slave trade. That absence reduces the diversity of African statements about the slave trade and African participation in the pre-abolition Atlantic world. Using the letters of Philip Quaque, as a case study, I argue that attention to the sparse eighteenth-century West Africa…
Queer Prolepsis and the Sexual Commons: An Introduction
Queer Prolepsis and the Sexual Commons:An Introduction Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi The story of the commons has been told elsewhere, a fascinating tale of old customs outliving social change. (Denman 1) In a still more embryonic state is our recognition of the evils of the commons in matters of pleasure. (Hardin 1248) QUEER QUESTIONS FOR AFRICAN LITERARY STUDIES “Queer Valences in African Literatures and Film,” this special issue of Research in Africa…
The African Atlantic: West African Literatures and Slavery Studies
The African Atlantic: West African Literatures and Slavery Studies Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi BOOKS REVIEWED Rebellious Histories: The Amistad Slave Revolt and the Cultures of Late Twentieth-Century Black Transnationalism ByMatthew J. Christensen Albany: State U of New York P, 2012. xiv + 188 pp. 9781438439709 paper. Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature By Laura T. Murphy Athens: Ohio UP, 2012. ix + 243 pp. 9780821419953 paper. SLA…
Micro-Politics of Buttocks: The Queer Intimacies of Chinua Achebe
This article places Chinua Achebe's fiction within emerging scholarship on queer sexualities in African literatures. While Achebe's fiction does not disclose specified embodiments of gay or lesbian identities or incontrovertible same-sex erotic acts, we can apprehend proliferating figurations of the queer in his fiction by paying attention to a cluster of sexual/political signifiers: the buttocks, the python, and Mami Wata. Through close readings…
Hostile Witnesses and Queer Life in Kenyan Prison Writing
This article explores three Kenyan political prison narratives, J. M. Kariuki's Mau Mau Detainee (1963), Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary (1981), and Maina wa Kĩnyatti's Kenya: A Prison Notebook (2009), as archives of anxious disputes over alternative sexual intimacies in Kenya at the very moment in which politicians formulated visions for a future after colonization. Situating prison writing within emerging queer historicism…
Abolition, Law, and the Osu Marriage Novel
This paper examines the representation of Osu slavery in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease . Whereas critics read the references to Osu as a minor subplot in the novel, this author suggests the dissipation of the Osu marriage plot illustrates the crisis of abolition within the context of anticolonial struggles. By situating Achebe’s novel alongside midcentury discourses on abolition, freedom, and marriage rights, the author argues that the novel’…
Provincializing Slavery: Atlantic Economies in Flora Nwapa's Efuru
Since its publication in 1966, Flora Nwapa’s Efuru has largely been read as a narrative of women’s solidarity. This paper departs from existing criticism by situating Efuru within a genealogy of West African fiction on the relations between Atlantic and African slaving networks. Efuru’s exploration of women’s subordinations within slaving systems, family sagas, and commodity histories locates women within an Atlantic world-system overtaken by col…
Cold War sponsorships: Chinua Achebe and the dialectics of collaboration
Since its publication, Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People has been overshadowed by its seemingly prophetic announcement of military intervention in Nigerian politics. In this article I suggest that the novel participates in a circuit of mid-century novels critiquing prevalent cold war rhetoric. It explores the problematic project of an African nation state riven by political alliances sponsored by dominant cold war powers. Within this context of…
Circulation and Slavery's Atlantic Locations (review of Africa and Trans-Atlantic Memories: (Literary and Aesthetic Manifestations of Diaspora and History , ed. Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Paul E. Lovejoy, …
Cultures of circulation are created and animated by the cultural forms that circulate through them, including critically the abstract nature of the forms that underwrite and propel the process of circulation itself. The circulation of such forms whether the novels and newspapers of the imagined community or the equity-based derivatives and currency swaps of the modern market always presupposed the existence of their respective interpretative comm…
Chinua Achebe and the Uptakes of African Slaveries
This paper examines the representation of slavery in the fiction of Chinua Achebe. The author suggests that the complex representation of slavery in Achebe's first three novels offers an insight in how writers of Achebe's generation wrote within a period of ideological crisis and multiple competing orders of social reality; they needed to resist European cultural imperialisms and colonial conquest at the same time that they had to evaluate the im…
Cognition's warp: African films on near-future risk
This article examines the use of the near-future scenario in two African films. By analysing the intertexual use of science fiction film iconography in Ousmane Sembène's La Noire de..., Jean-Pierre Bekolo's Les Saignantes and Sylvestre Amoussou's Africa Paradis, the author argues that the latter films should be regarded as post-millennium refashioning of the anticipation narrative. In particular, these latter films using tropes of cyberspace and …
Literacies of Violence Afterthings Fall Apart
In the crop of novels that announced the arrival of what has been called the ‘third generation’ of Nigerian writers, it has become de riguer to invoke Chinua Achebe's seminal Things Fall Apart. Thi
Abusive Narratives: Antjie Krog, Rian Malan, and the Transmission of Violence
In appraisals of Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull, critics reiterate the failures of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and criticize Krog's use of victim testimonies. Critics have paid particular attention to the ways in which Krog moves between multiple subject positions as a white South African woman, a journalist, and an Afrikaner. These conflictual positionings are, in part, held responsible for what is seen as her …
Queer Prolepsis and the Sexual Commons: An Introduction
Queer Prolepsis and the Sexual Commons:An Introduction Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi The story of the commons has been told elsewhere, a fascinating tale of old customs outliving social change. (Denman 1) In a still more embryonic state is our recognition of the evils of the commons in matters of pleasure. (Hardin 1248) QUEER QUESTIONS FOR AFRICAN LITERARY STUDIES “Queer Valences in African Literatures and Film,” this special issue of Research in Africa…
Cold War sponsorships: Chinua Achebe and the dialectics of collaboration
Since its publication, Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People has been overshadowed by its seemingly prophetic announcement of military intervention in Nigerian politics. In this article I suggest that the novel participates in a circuit of mid-century novels critiquing prevalent cold war rhetoric. It explores the problematic project of an African nation state riven by political alliances sponsored by dominant cold war powers. Within this context of…
Provincializing Slavery: Atlantic Economies in Flora Nwapa's Efuru
Since its publication in 1966, Flora Nwapa’s Efuru has largely been read as a narrative of women’s solidarity. This paper departs from existing criticism by situating Efuru within a genealogy of West African fiction on the relations between Atlantic and African slaving networks. Efuru’s exploration of women’s subordinations within slaving systems, family sagas, and commodity histories locates women within an Atlantic world-system overtaken by col…
Tropicalizing Philip Quaque: On African Atlantic Literatures
Whereas slave narratives are classics of eighteenth-century studies, there has been scant attention to African eighteenth-century writing written by parties implicated in the slave trade. That absence reduces the diversity of African statements about the slave trade and African participation in the pre-abolition Atlantic world. Using the letters of Philip Quaque, as a case study, I argue that attention to the sparse eighteenth-century West Africa…
Micro-Politics of Buttocks: The Queer Intimacies of Chinua Achebe
This article places Chinua Achebe's fiction within emerging scholarship on queer sexualities in African literatures. While Achebe's fiction does not disclose specified embodiments of gay or lesbian identities or incontrovertible same-sex erotic acts, we can apprehend proliferating figurations of the queer in his fiction by paying attention to a cluster of sexual/political signifiers: the buttocks, the python, and Mami Wata. Through close readings…
Chinua Achebe and the Uptakes of African Slaveries
This paper examines the representation of slavery in the fiction of Chinua Achebe. The author suggests that the complex representation of slavery in Achebe's first three novels offers an insight in how writers of Achebe's generation wrote within a period of ideological crisis and multiple competing orders of social reality; they needed to resist European cultural imperialisms and colonial conquest at the same time that they had to evaluate the im…
African Queer Autobiographics: Drama, Disclosure, and Pedagogy
This article explores the cultural politics and aesthetic forms of African life-writing anthologies that have recently become a platform for queer literary activism. Using Stories of Our Lives: Queer Narratives from Kenya as a case study, the author suggests that these emerging anthologies are vernacular theorizations of African queer conditions and represent important pedagogical tools. They disclose the conditions shaping emergent queer identit…
The African Atlantic: West African Literatures and Slavery Studies
The African Atlantic: West African Literatures and Slavery Studies Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi BOOKS REVIEWED Rebellious Histories: The Amistad Slave Revolt and the Cultures of Late Twentieth-Century Black Transnationalism ByMatthew J. Christensen Albany: State U of New York P, 2012. xiv + 188 pp. 9781438439709 paper. Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature By Laura T. Murphy Athens: Ohio UP, 2012. ix + 243 pp. 9780821419953 paper. SLA…
Abolition, Law, and the Osu Marriage Novel
This paper examines the representation of Osu slavery in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease . Whereas critics read the references to Osu as a minor subplot in the novel, this author suggests the dissipation of the Osu marriage plot illustrates the crisis of abolition within the context of anticolonial struggles. By situating Achebe’s novel alongside midcentury discourses on abolition, freedom, and marriage rights, the author argues that the novel’…
Cognition's warp: African films on near-future risk
This article examines the use of the near-future scenario in two African films. By analysing the intertexual use of science fiction film iconography in Ousmane Sembène's La Noire de..., Jean-Pierre Bekolo's Les Saignantes and Sylvestre Amoussou's Africa Paradis, the author argues that the latter films should be regarded as post-millennium refashioning of the anticipation narrative. In particular, these latter films using tropes of cyberspace and …
Literacies of Violence Afterthings Fall Apart
In the crop of novels that announced the arrival of what has been called the ‘third generation’ of Nigerian writers, it has become de riguer to invoke Chinua Achebe's seminal Things Fall Apart. Thi
Abusive Narratives: Antjie Krog, Rian Malan, and the Transmission of Violence
In appraisals of Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull, critics reiterate the failures of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and criticize Krog's use of victim testimonies. Critics have paid particular attention to the ways in which Krog moves between multiple subject positions as a white South African woman, a journalist, and an Afrikaner. These conflictual positionings are, in part, held responsible for what is seen as her …
Abusive Narratives: Antjie Krog, Rian Malan, and the Transmission of Violence
In appraisals of Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull, critics reiterate the failures of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and criticize Krog's use of victim testimonies. Critics have paid particular attention to the ways in which Krog moves between multiple subject positions as a white South African woman, a journalist, and an Afrikaner. These conflictual positionings are, in part, held responsible for what is seen as her …
Circulation and Slavery's Atlantic Locations (review of Africa and Trans-Atlantic Memories: (Literary and Aesthetic Manifestations of Diaspora and History , ed. Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Paul E. Lovejoy, …
Cultures of circulation are created and animated by the cultural forms that circulate through them, including critically the abstract nature of the forms that underwrite and propel the process of circulation itself. The circulation of such forms whether the novels and newspapers of the imagined community or the equity-based derivatives and currency swaps of the modern market always presupposed the existence of their respective interpretative comm…
Chinua Achebe and the Uptakes of African Slaveries
This paper examines the representation of slavery in the fiction of Chinua Achebe. The author suggests that the complex representation of slavery in Achebe's first three novels offers an insight in how writers of Achebe's generation wrote within a period of ideological crisis and multiple competing orders of social reality; they needed to resist European cultural imperialisms and colonial conquest at the same time that they had to evaluate the im…
Cognition's warp: African films on near-future risk
This article examines the use of the near-future scenario in two African films. By analysing the intertexual use of science fiction film iconography in Ousmane Sembène's La Noire de..., Jean-Pierre Bekolo's Les Saignantes and Sylvestre Amoussou's Africa Paradis, the author argues that the latter films should be regarded as post-millennium refashioning of the anticipation narrative. In particular, these latter films using tropes of cyberspace and …
Literacies of Violence Afterthings Fall Apart
In the crop of novels that announced the arrival of what has been called the ‘third generation’ of Nigerian writers, it has become de riguer to invoke Chinua Achebe's seminal Things Fall Apart. Thi
Hostile Witnesses and Queer Life in Kenyan Prison Writing
This article explores three Kenyan political prison narratives, J. M. Kariuki's Mau Mau Detainee (1963), Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary (1981), and Maina wa Kĩnyatti's Kenya: A Prison Notebook (2009), as archives of anxious disputes over alternative sexual intimacies in Kenya at the very moment in which politicians formulated visions for a future after colonization. Situating prison writing within emerging queer historicism…
Abolition, Law, and the Osu Marriage Novel
This paper examines the representation of Osu slavery in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease . Whereas critics read the references to Osu as a minor subplot in the novel, this author suggests the dissipation of the Osu marriage plot illustrates the crisis of abolition within the context of anticolonial struggles. By situating Achebe’s novel alongside midcentury discourses on abolition, freedom, and marriage rights, the author argues that the novel’…
Provincializing Slavery: Atlantic Economies in Flora Nwapa's Efuru
Since its publication in 1966, Flora Nwapa’s Efuru has largely been read as a narrative of women’s solidarity. This paper departs from existing criticism by situating Efuru within a genealogy of West African fiction on the relations between Atlantic and African slaving networks. Efuru’s exploration of women’s subordinations within slaving systems, family sagas, and commodity histories locates women within an Atlantic world-system overtaken by col…
Cold War sponsorships: Chinua Achebe and the dialectics of collaboration
Since its publication, Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People has been overshadowed by its seemingly prophetic announcement of military intervention in Nigerian politics. In this article I suggest that the novel participates in a circuit of mid-century novels critiquing prevalent cold war rhetoric. It explores the problematic project of an African nation state riven by political alliances sponsored by dominant cold war powers. Within this context of…
Queer Prolepsis and the Sexual Commons: An Introduction
Queer Prolepsis and the Sexual Commons:An Introduction Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi The story of the commons has been told elsewhere, a fascinating tale of old customs outliving social change. (Denman 1) In a still more embryonic state is our recognition of the evils of the commons in matters of pleasure. (Hardin 1248) QUEER QUESTIONS FOR AFRICAN LITERARY STUDIES “Queer Valences in African Literatures and Film,” this special issue of Research in Africa…
The African Atlantic: West African Literatures and Slavery Studies
The African Atlantic: West African Literatures and Slavery Studies Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi BOOKS REVIEWED Rebellious Histories: The Amistad Slave Revolt and the Cultures of Late Twentieth-Century Black Transnationalism ByMatthew J. Christensen Albany: State U of New York P, 2012. xiv + 188 pp. 9781438439709 paper. Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature By Laura T. Murphy Athens: Ohio UP, 2012. ix + 243 pp. 9780821419953 paper. SLA…
Micro-Politics of Buttocks: The Queer Intimacies of Chinua Achebe
This article places Chinua Achebe's fiction within emerging scholarship on queer sexualities in African literatures. While Achebe's fiction does not disclose specified embodiments of gay or lesbian identities or incontrovertible same-sex erotic acts, we can apprehend proliferating figurations of the queer in his fiction by paying attention to a cluster of sexual/political signifiers: the buttocks, the python, and Mami Wata. Through close readings…
Chimeras of Form By Aarthi Vadde New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 288 pp
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
An Intellectual History of African Literary Studies
Twenty-first-century African literary production has generated a number of conundrums for scholars invested in African literary studies as one recognizable field of study. Some of these conundrums drive Tejumola Olaniyan’s declaration of a post-global condition in African literary studies in “African Literature in the Post-Global Age.” Understanding that essay demands a detour through an intellectual history of African literary studies from about…
Tropicalizing Philip Quaque: On African Atlantic Literatures
Whereas slave narratives are classics of eighteenth-century studies, there has been scant attention to African eighteenth-century writing written by parties implicated in the slave trade. That absence reduces the diversity of African statements about the slave trade and African participation in the pre-abolition Atlantic world. Using the letters of Philip Quaque, as a case study, I argue that attention to the sparse eighteenth-century West Africa…
Queer Subjects in Kenyan Cinema: Reflections on Rafiki
Wanuri Kahiu's (2018) film, Rafiki, is an understated but confident contribution to emerging African queer cinema. Kahiu obviously worked with a limited budget: however, she portrays a same-sex rom
African Queer Autobiographics: Drama, Disclosure, and Pedagogy
This article explores the cultural politics and aesthetic forms of African life-writing anthologies that have recently become a platform for queer literary activism. Using Stories of Our Lives: Queer Narratives from Kenya as a case study, the author suggests that these emerging anthologies are vernacular theorizations of African queer conditions and represent important pedagogical tools. They disclose the conditions shaping emergent queer identit…
Sexual Intimacies in Literatures of the Black Diaspora
Book Review| January 01 2021 Sexual Intimacies in Literatures of the Black Diaspora Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora. Macharia, Keguro. New York: New York University Press, 2019. ix + 224 pp. Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi is associate professor of English studies at Western University, Canada. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2021) 27 (1): 161–164. http…
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