Ignatius Chukwumah
Biographic Data
| ID | 285701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ignatius Chukwumah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ignatius |
| FAMILY NAME | Chukwumah |
| SIGNATURE | CHUKWUMAH I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Federal University NigeriaWukari, Taraba State |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6044-8083 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Complicating the Language of Conventional Nigerian Narratives
Nigerian narratives, from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) to contemporary ones, have always resorted to the technique of realism by which they seek to make art correspond to life. These narratives were, therefore, metonymic, Roman Jakobson’s manner of describing language standing in for a state of reality. This circumstance persisted until Ben Okri’s mature novels deviated from it through being metaphoric and the deployment of unfamiliar…
Performance of Jukun Panegyrics
Although, from extant literature, Nigeria has been noted to have a considerable number of significant panegyrics, this variety seems to exclude the Jukun, an influential ethnic stock located in southern Taraba, along Nigeria’s northeastern corridor. This article describes Jukun panegyrics against their socio-cultural context. It uses Richard Bauman’s thought on performance as shared heritage peculiar to a people’s verbal art culture to describe h…
Rethinking Aristotle’s Hamartia
Rethinking Aristotle's Hamartia: The Igbo Nigerian Tragic Form in Chinua Achebe's Fiction Ignatius Chukwumah (bio) Tragedy as a literary form is no doubt present in African literature. Like most human creations, it arises from "a pan-human universal experience unlimited by national or ethnic barriers" (Anyokwu 1). In Wole Soyinka's words, [t]he persistent search for the meaning of tragedy, for a redefinition in terms of cultural or private experi…
Joke-Performance in Africa
The displaced Male-Image in Kaine Agary's Yellow-Yellow
It has been commonly asserted that Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow (2006) presents a sordid account of the deprivation of the protagonist’s subsistence livelihood by oil despoilment. This assertion is made without much regard to the repressed and manifest anxieties and desires profoundly induced in the novel’s central character by a male who is present, onto whom the absent malefigure is displaced. This article, therefore, investigates the provocatio…
Persecution in Igbo-Nigerian Civil-War Narratives
Sociopolitical phenomena such as corruption, political instability, (domestic) violence, cultural fragmentation, and the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) have been central themes of Nigerian narratives. Important as these are, they tend to touch on the periphery of the major issue at stake, which is the vector of persecution underlying the Nigerian tradition in general and in modern Igbo Nigerian narratives in particular, novels and short stories w…
Retheorising The Pharmakos
Narratives written by Nigerians of the Igbo ethnic stock – those of Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, and others – have been read by critics as positing postcolonial and socio-cultural issues, thanks to Euro-Western theoretic lenses. However, there is more to these – the presence of the pharmakos figure, whose suffering is in excess of his sin or contrasts his (near) innocence. The pharmakos theory always undertakes to weigh a character's punishment…
The African Literary Artist and the Question of Function
Critics have argued that the African literary artist [traditional or modern] carries out some kind of function. This includes teaching his audience through his work, having qualified as the keeper of his society’s mores. Yet no critic has closely interrogated this stance and the constitution of the space of representation and teaching; what he really teaches; the shades of opinion that make him seem a recorder of his society’s mores; and other su…
Lazarus, Noah, and the Enunciation of the Resurrection in Soyinka’s
Rethinking Aristotle’s Hamartia
Rethinking Aristotle's Hamartia: The Igbo Nigerian Tragic Form in Chinua Achebe's Fiction Ignatius Chukwumah (bio) Tragedy as a literary form is no doubt present in African literature. Like most human creations, it arises from "a pan-human universal experience unlimited by national or ethnic barriers" (Anyokwu 1). In Wole Soyinka's words, [t]he persistent search for the meaning of tragedy, for a redefinition in terms of cultural or private experi…
Persecution in Igbo-Nigerian Civil-War Narratives
Sociopolitical phenomena such as corruption, political instability, (domestic) violence, cultural fragmentation, and the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) have been central themes of Nigerian narratives. Important as these are, they tend to touch on the periphery of the major issue at stake, which is the vector of persecution underlying the Nigerian tradition in general and in modern Igbo Nigerian narratives in particular, novels and short stories w…
Lazarus, Noah, and the Enunciation of the Resurrection in Soyinka’s
Retheorising The Pharmakos
Narratives written by Nigerians of the Igbo ethnic stock – those of Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, and others – have been read by critics as positing postcolonial and socio-cultural issues, thanks to Euro-Western theoretic lenses. However, there is more to these – the presence of the pharmakos figure, whose suffering is in excess of his sin or contrasts his (near) innocence. The pharmakos theory always undertakes to weigh a character's punishment…
The African Literary Artist and the Question of Function
Critics have argued that the African literary artist [traditional or modern] carries out some kind of function. This includes teaching his audience through his work, having qualified as the keeper of his society’s mores. Yet no critic has closely interrogated this stance and the constitution of the space of representation and teaching; what he really teaches; the shades of opinion that make him seem a recorder of his society’s mores; and other su…
Joke-Performance in Africa
The displaced Male-Image in Kaine Agary's Yellow-Yellow
It has been commonly asserted that Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow (2006) presents a sordid account of the deprivation of the protagonist’s subsistence livelihood by oil despoilment. This assertion is made without much regard to the repressed and manifest anxieties and desires profoundly induced in the novel’s central character by a male who is present, onto whom the absent malefigure is displaced. This article, therefore, investigates the provocatio…
Persecution in Igbo-Nigerian Civil-War Narratives
Sociopolitical phenomena such as corruption, political instability, (domestic) violence, cultural fragmentation, and the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) have been central themes of Nigerian narratives. Important as these are, they tend to touch on the periphery of the major issue at stake, which is the vector of persecution underlying the Nigerian tradition in general and in modern Igbo Nigerian narratives in particular, novels and short stories w…
Rethinking Aristotle’s Hamartia
Rethinking Aristotle's Hamartia: The Igbo Nigerian Tragic Form in Chinua Achebe's Fiction Ignatius Chukwumah (bio) Tragedy as a literary form is no doubt present in African literature. Like most human creations, it arises from "a pan-human universal experience unlimited by national or ethnic barriers" (Anyokwu 1). In Wole Soyinka's words, [t]he persistent search for the meaning of tragedy, for a redefinition in terms of cultural or private experi…
Performance of Jukun Panegyrics
Although, from extant literature, Nigeria has been noted to have a considerable number of significant panegyrics, this variety seems to exclude the Jukun, an influential ethnic stock located in southern Taraba, along Nigeria’s northeastern corridor. This article describes Jukun panegyrics against their socio-cultural context. It uses Richard Bauman’s thought on performance as shared heritage peculiar to a people’s verbal art culture to describe h…
Complicating the Language of Conventional Nigerian Narratives
Nigerian narratives, from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) to contemporary ones, have always resorted to the technique of realism by which they seek to make art correspond to life. These narratives were, therefore, metonymic, Roman Jakobson’s manner of describing language standing in for a state of reality. This circumstance persisted until Ben Okri’s mature novels deviated from it through being metaphoric and the deployment of unfamiliar…
Art (9 works) · Literature (9 works) · History (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics (5 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)