Oyeniyi Okunoye
Biographic Data
| ID | 211092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oyeniyi Okunoye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oyeniyi |
| FAMILY NAME | Okunoye |
| SIGNATURE | OKUNOYE O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Obafemi Awolowo University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2542-0664 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Writing resistance
In spite of the fact that about thirty years of military rule impacted negatively on various spheres of Nigerian life, this essay argues that it also served as a catalyst for the growth of Nigerian poetry. It contests the critical standpoint that exclusively identifies socially sensitive poetry in Nigeria in the closing decades of the twentieth century with a particular ‘generation’ of poets and situates the phenomenal growth of Nigerian poetry w…
Lanrewaju Adepọju and the Making of Modern Yoruba Poetry
This essay presents Lanrewaju Adepọju, whose work and ideas have been very influential on contemporary Yoruba poetry, as a local intellectual. In estimating his contribution to modernising ewì, an open poetic form that inhabits the interface between the oral and the written, the essay draws on biographical information, an extensive personal interview and relevant textual illustration. It correlates Adepọju's vision of poetry with the development …
Half a Century of Reading Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
This essay appraises the reception of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the novel reputed to have inaugurated the modern African novelistic tradition, in the first fifty years of its publication. In surveying the major critical attitudes that the novel has attracted, it underscores the fact that the factors that sustain its reputation include the discourses in which it is implicated, the author's fictional agenda and the ascendancy of post-colon…
Alterity, Marginality and the National Question in the Poetry of the Niger Delta1
Marginalité, altérité et la question de la nation dans la poésie du détroit du Niger. — En tentant de témoigner de la complexité croissante de la géographie littéraire en Afrique et en portant les études sur la région du détroit du Niger au Nigeria dans la sphère culturelle, cet article attire l’attention sur la tradition poétique singulière de cette région. En soulignant la préoccupation constante pour le lien entre l’Homme et la nature dans l’i…
Postcoloniality, African Poetry, and Counter-Discourse
Niyi Osundare and the Marginalised Majority in Songs of the Season
This reads Osundare's poems as exhibiting a striking unity of vision, giving expression to the poet's identification with the marginalized, but also as proceeding from an indebtedness to a variety of traditions, the most important being Yoruba popular (performance) poetry
The margins or the metropole? The location of home in Odia Ofeimun's London Letter and Other Poems
This paper reads Odia Ofeimun’s London Letter and Other Poems (2000) in light of contestations with regard to the conception and location of home in postcolonial travel writing. The collection is seen as preoccupied with the burden of self-location and the associated problem of self-definition in this tradition. The migrant postcolonial writer is understood as almost always caught in a dilemma once a choice has to be made between identifying with…
Bernth Lindfors and African Letters
We Too Sing”
The Critical Reception of Modern African Poetry
La réception critique de la poésie africaine moderne. — Cet article analyse la production de savoir critique dans les études consacrées à la littérature africaine, et plus particulièrement à la poésie africaine moderne. Nous nous pencherons sur les principaux paradigmes et méthodes, en explorant les différentes possibilités qui permettent de lire la tradition. La poésie africaine moderne dans cet article fait référence à la poésie africaine telle…
Signifying blackness
Este pequeno texto procura problematizar certas noções que vão contra a tentativa de formulação de uma teoria da arte negra. Para isso, são utilizadas, em parte, as teorias relacionadas com o público para delinear um caminho alternativo para uma teoria da estética negra. Mas, principalmente, é defendido que uma teoria da arte negra que queira ter uma certa credibilidade, deve reconhecer as preferências compartilhadas pelas várias populações negra…
Dramatizing Postcoloniality
History is not the past: it is a consciousness of the past used for present purposes. (Greg Dening) After empire, it was clear the history of the colonised needed repair. (Elleke Boehmer) This paper identifies history as a major site for identity-formation in the postcolonial world. It draws attention to some strategies of historical reconstruction in African drama by focusing on Ngugi and Mugo's The Trial of Dedan Kimathi , an influential Kenyan…
Captives of Empire
African universities have always been acknowledged as unrivalled cetres of literary creation. However, literary historians engaged in the construction of contemporary African literary history have not paid adequate attention to the contribution by the writers' communities in these institutions in the development of the African literary tradition. This paper draws attention to the influential Ibadan literary tradition, as Ibadan has been the breed…
Lanrewaju Adepọju and the Making of Modern Yoruba Poetry
This essay presents Lanrewaju Adepọju, whose work and ideas have been very influential on contemporary Yoruba poetry, as a local intellectual. In estimating his contribution to modernising ewì, an open poetic form that inhabits the interface between the oral and the written, the essay draws on biographical information, an extensive personal interview and relevant textual illustration. It correlates Adepọju's vision of poetry with the development …
Writing resistance
In spite of the fact that about thirty years of military rule impacted negatively on various spheres of Nigerian life, this essay argues that it also served as a catalyst for the growth of Nigerian poetry. It contests the critical standpoint that exclusively identifies socially sensitive poetry in Nigeria in the closing decades of the twentieth century with a particular ‘generation’ of poets and situates the phenomenal growth of Nigerian poetry w…
We Too Sing”
The Critical Reception of Modern African Poetry
La réception critique de la poésie africaine moderne. — Cet article analyse la production de savoir critique dans les études consacrées à la littérature africaine, et plus particulièrement à la poésie africaine moderne. Nous nous pencherons sur les principaux paradigmes et méthodes, en explorant les différentes possibilités qui permettent de lire la tradition. La poésie africaine moderne dans cet article fait référence à la poésie africaine telle…
Captives of Empire
African universities have always been acknowledged as unrivalled cetres of literary creation. However, literary historians engaged in the construction of contemporary African literary history have not paid adequate attention to the contribution by the writers' communities in these institutions in the development of the African literary tradition. This paper draws attention to the influential Ibadan literary tradition, as Ibadan has been the breed…
Alterity, Marginality and the National Question in the Poetry of the Niger Delta1
Marginalité, altérité et la question de la nation dans la poésie du détroit du Niger. — En tentant de témoigner de la complexité croissante de la géographie littéraire en Afrique et en portant les études sur la région du détroit du Niger au Nigeria dans la sphère culturelle, cet article attire l’attention sur la tradition poétique singulière de cette région. En soulignant la préoccupation constante pour le lien entre l’Homme et la nature dans l’i…
Niyi Osundare and the Marginalised Majority in Songs of the Season
This reads Osundare's poems as exhibiting a striking unity of vision, giving expression to the poet's identification with the marginalized, but also as proceeding from an indebtedness to a variety of traditions, the most important being Yoruba popular (performance) poetry
Dramatizing Postcoloniality
History is not the past: it is a consciousness of the past used for present purposes. (Greg Dening) After empire, it was clear the history of the colonised needed repair. (Elleke Boehmer) This paper identifies history as a major site for identity-formation in the postcolonial world. It draws attention to some strategies of historical reconstruction in African drama by focusing on Ngugi and Mugo's The Trial of Dedan Kimathi , an influential Kenyan…
Captives of Empire
African universities have always been acknowledged as unrivalled cetres of literary creation. However, literary historians engaged in the construction of contemporary African literary history have not paid adequate attention to the contribution by the writers' communities in these institutions in the development of the African literary tradition. This paper draws attention to the influential Ibadan literary tradition, as Ibadan has been the breed…
Dramatizing Postcoloniality
History is not the past: it is a consciousness of the past used for present purposes. (Greg Dening) After empire, it was clear the history of the colonised needed repair. (Elleke Boehmer) This paper identifies history as a major site for identity-formation in the postcolonial world. It draws attention to some strategies of historical reconstruction in African drama by focusing on Ngugi and Mugo's The Trial of Dedan Kimathi , an influential Kenyan…
The Critical Reception of Modern African Poetry
La réception critique de la poésie africaine moderne. — Cet article analyse la production de savoir critique dans les études consacrées à la littérature africaine, et plus particulièrement à la poésie africaine moderne. Nous nous pencherons sur les principaux paradigmes et méthodes, en explorant les différentes possibilités qui permettent de lire la tradition. La poésie africaine moderne dans cet article fait référence à la poésie africaine telle…
Signifying blackness
Este pequeno texto procura problematizar certas noções que vão contra a tentativa de formulação de uma teoria da arte negra. Para isso, são utilizadas, em parte, as teorias relacionadas com o público para delinear um caminho alternativo para uma teoria da estética negra. Mas, principalmente, é defendido que uma teoria da arte negra que queira ter uma certa credibilidade, deve reconhecer as preferências compartilhadas pelas várias populações negra…
We Too Sing”
The margins or the metropole? The location of home in Odia Ofeimun's London Letter and Other Poems
This paper reads Odia Ofeimun’s London Letter and Other Poems (2000) in light of contestations with regard to the conception and location of home in postcolonial travel writing. The collection is seen as preoccupied with the burden of self-location and the associated problem of self-definition in this tradition. The migrant postcolonial writer is understood as almost always caught in a dilemma once a choice has to be made between identifying with…
Bernth Lindfors and African Letters
Postcoloniality, African Poetry, and Counter-Discourse
Niyi Osundare and the Marginalised Majority in Songs of the Season
This reads Osundare's poems as exhibiting a striking unity of vision, giving expression to the poet's identification with the marginalized, but also as proceeding from an indebtedness to a variety of traditions, the most important being Yoruba popular (performance) poetry
Alterity, Marginality and the National Question in the Poetry of the Niger Delta1
Marginalité, altérité et la question de la nation dans la poésie du détroit du Niger. — En tentant de témoigner de la complexité croissante de la géographie littéraire en Afrique et en portant les études sur la région du détroit du Niger au Nigeria dans la sphère culturelle, cet article attire l’attention sur la tradition poétique singulière de cette région. En soulignant la préoccupation constante pour le lien entre l’Homme et la nature dans l’i…
Half a Century of Reading Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
This essay appraises the reception of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the novel reputed to have inaugurated the modern African novelistic tradition, in the first fifty years of its publication. In surveying the major critical attitudes that the novel has attracted, it underscores the fact that the factors that sustain its reputation include the discourses in which it is implicated, the author's fictional agenda and the ascendancy of post-colon…
Lanrewaju Adepọju and the Making of Modern Yoruba Poetry
This essay presents Lanrewaju Adepọju, whose work and ideas have been very influential on contemporary Yoruba poetry, as a local intellectual. In estimating his contribution to modernising ewì, an open poetic form that inhabits the interface between the oral and the written, the essay draws on biographical information, an extensive personal interview and relevant textual illustration. It correlates Adepọju's vision of poetry with the development …
Writing resistance
In spite of the fact that about thirty years of military rule impacted negatively on various spheres of Nigerian life, this essay argues that it also served as a catalyst for the growth of Nigerian poetry. It contests the critical standpoint that exclusively identifies socially sensitive poetry in Nigeria in the closing decades of the twentieth century with a particular ‘generation’ of poets and situates the phenomenal growth of Nigerian poetry w…
Art (11 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (10 works) · Literature (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Poetry (7 works) · History (6 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)