Maik Nwosu
Biographic Data
| ID | 220980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maik Nwosu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maik |
| FAMILY NAME | Nwosu |
| SIGNATURE | NWOSU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota, Duluth |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Festival Spirit and the Comic Horizon in African Literature
The Festival Spirit and the Comic Horizon in African Literature" Maik Nwosu (bio) African literary criticism usually focuses on tragic or 'serious' literature. The tradition of comic literature is often understated or neglected. Many of the well-known and often-discussed modern African novels—such as Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Mariama Bâ's Une si longue lettre [So Long a Letter], Mia Couto's Terra Sonâmbula [Sleepwalking Land], Tsitsi Dan…
The Comic Imagination in Modern African Literature and Cinema: A Poetics of Laughter
1. The flaming masquerade and comic simplicitas -- 2. The wilderness paradox and comic magnitude -- 3. Dramatic poetry and comic synthesis -- 4. Nollywood cinema and the semiotics of laughter
In the name of the sign: The nsibidi script as the language and literature of the crossroads
The study of nsibidi, one of Africa's native writing systems, has mainly taken two routes — the taxonomic, which is concerned with the classification of nsibidi signs, and the genealogical, which attempts to resolve the question of where and how nsibidi originated. This essay undertakes a semiotic and literary analysis of nsibidi as an influential language of the crossroads. In modern Nigerian literature, for instance, the poetics of “nsibidi” ma…
Derek Walcott'sOmerosand the refiguration of the Caribbean Eden
In his 1992 Nobel lecture, Derek Walcott describes “Antillean art” as the “restoration of our shattered histories, our shards of vocabulary, our archipelago becoming a synonym for pieces broken off from the original continent”. His epical Omeros is a journey‐based and transformative gathering of those pieces, emphasizing the significance of language as an anti‐imperial instrument. Its language reflects the power dynamic that shaped the cultural i…
The River, the Earth, and the Spirit World. Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, and the Novel in Africa
Christopher Okigbo and the Postcolonial Market of Memories
The association of Christopher Okigbo's poetry with Anglo-American modernist poetics has often attracted two main types of evaluation: the failure of ideology and Eurocentrism. But Okigbo demonstrates literary dexterity in the manner in which the deep structure of his poetry troubles the historical overvaluation of the white sign and the devaluation of the black sign manifest in the colonial market of memories between Europe and Africa. Historica…
In the name of the sign: The nsibidi script as the language and literature of the crossroads
The study of nsibidi, one of Africa's native writing systems, has mainly taken two routes — the taxonomic, which is concerned with the classification of nsibidi signs, and the genealogical, which attempts to resolve the question of where and how nsibidi originated. This essay undertakes a semiotic and literary analysis of nsibidi as an influential language of the crossroads. In modern Nigerian literature, for instance, the poetics of “nsibidi” ma…
The River, the Earth, and the Spirit World. Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, and the Novel in Africa
The River, the Earth, and the Spirit World. Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, and the Novel in Africa
Christopher Okigbo and the Postcolonial Market of Memories
The association of Christopher Okigbo's poetry with Anglo-American modernist poetics has often attracted two main types of evaluation: the failure of ideology and Eurocentrism. But Okigbo demonstrates literary dexterity in the manner in which the deep structure of his poetry troubles the historical overvaluation of the white sign and the devaluation of the black sign manifest in the colonial market of memories between Europe and Africa. Historica…
Derek Walcott'sOmerosand the refiguration of the Caribbean Eden
In his 1992 Nobel lecture, Derek Walcott describes “Antillean art” as the “restoration of our shattered histories, our shards of vocabulary, our archipelago becoming a synonym for pieces broken off from the original continent”. His epical Omeros is a journey‐based and transformative gathering of those pieces, emphasizing the significance of language as an anti‐imperial instrument. Its language reflects the power dynamic that shaped the cultural i…
In the name of the sign: The nsibidi script as the language and literature of the crossroads
The study of nsibidi, one of Africa's native writing systems, has mainly taken two routes — the taxonomic, which is concerned with the classification of nsibidi signs, and the genealogical, which attempts to resolve the question of where and how nsibidi originated. This essay undertakes a semiotic and literary analysis of nsibidi as an influential language of the crossroads. In modern Nigerian literature, for instance, the poetics of “nsibidi” ma…
The Festival Spirit and the Comic Horizon in African Literature
The Festival Spirit and the Comic Horizon in African Literature" Maik Nwosu (bio) African literary criticism usually focuses on tragic or 'serious' literature. The tradition of comic literature is often understated or neglected. Many of the well-known and often-discussed modern African novels—such as Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Mariama Bâ's Une si longue lettre [So Long a Letter], Mia Couto's Terra Sonâmbula [Sleepwalking Land], Tsitsi Dan…
The Comic Imagination in Modern African Literature and Cinema: A Poetics of Laughter
1. The flaming masquerade and comic simplicitas -- 2. The wilderness paradox and comic magnitude -- 3. Dramatic poetry and comic synthesis -- 4. Nollywood cinema and the semiotics of laughter
Art (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Poetics (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)