Christopher N Okonkwo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher N Okonkwo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher N |
| FAMILY NAME | Okonkwo |
| SIGNATURE | OKONKWO C N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Migration Blues in Jazz Styling: Spinning Them Overlooked Jazz and Blues Numbers in Brian Chikwava's Fiction
This essay contends that the narrator’s invocations of music in Harare North are not as serendipitous and isolated as they seem. Rather, jazz and blues function semiotically and axially in the story. I argue that together they serve, on the one hand, as a reminder of and an indirect authorial salute to Harare’s and, by extension, Zimbabwe’s urban music history, particularly its long tradition of jazz and blues. As one of Zimbabwe’s “cultural work…
It Was Like Meeting an Old Friend: An Interview with John Edgar Wideman
Click for larger view Figure 1 John Edgar Wideman © Jean-Christian Bourcart [End Page 346] In his review of John Edgar Wideman's The Cattle Killing (1996), Philip Page declares, "Wideman has done it again. He has written another spellbinding, provocative—and difficult—novel" (African American Review Summer 1998: 32. 2). Page is right. Part of that difficulty arises from Wideman framing the narrative around ogbanje, an idea with which many of his …
A Critical Divination: Reading Sula as Ogbanje-Abiku
Isn't it just possible that we are all abikus? ... [W]hy should there be some and not others? Why should the universe be distributed that way? (Ben Okri, Interview with Jane Wilkinson) Egbe here, Ugo here.... May the Hawk perch, [and] may the Eagle perch.... (Preface to Igbo proverb) Toni Morrison's second novel depicts in its marked title character one of the most fascinating figures in American fiction. It portrays, as it were, eccentric, power…
Space Matters: Form and Narrative in Tsitsi Dangaremgba's Nervous Conditions
Tsitsi Dangaremgba's Conditions (1988) is an ingeniously written novel. Its appeal goes beyond Dangaremgba's arresting interest in (post) colonial, gender, and cultural politics and the fact that the novel came out at a moment in Zimbabwean history when there was little supportive space for women in that country who wished to write themselves into the public sphere and discourse by pursuing publishing careers, particularly in English language (se…
Suicide or Messianic Self-Sacrifice: Exhuming Willa's Body in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills
Black liberation struggle must be re-visioned so that it is no longer equated with maleness. (bell hooks, yearning) Since joining the burgeoning canon of contemporary Black women's fiction, Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills (1985) has generated much critical discussion not only for its associations with Dante [1] but also its damning depiction of the Black bourgeoisie. [2] However, while scholars have read the novel along these and other lines, and al…
Of Repression, Assertion, and the Speakerly Dress: Anzia Yezierska's Salome of the Tenements
Journal Article Of Repression, Assertion, and the Speakerly Dress: Anzia Yezierska's Salome of the Tenements Get access Christopher N. Okonkwo Christopher N. Okonkwo University of Notre Dame Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2000, Pages 129–145, https://doi.org/10.2307/468154 Published: 01 March 2000
A Critical Divination: Reading Sula as Ogbanje-Abiku
Isn't it just possible that we are all abikus? ... [W]hy should there be some and not others? Why should the universe be distributed that way? (Ben Okri, Interview with Jane Wilkinson) Egbe here, Ugo here.... May the Hawk perch, [and] may the Eagle perch.... (Preface to Igbo proverb) Toni Morrison's second novel depicts in its marked title character one of the most fascinating figures in American fiction. It portrays, as it were, eccentric, power…
Of Repression, Assertion, and the Speakerly Dress: Anzia Yezierska's Salome of the Tenements
Journal Article Of Repression, Assertion, and the Speakerly Dress: Anzia Yezierska's Salome of the Tenements Get access Christopher N. Okonkwo Christopher N. Okonkwo University of Notre Dame Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2000, Pages 129–145, https://doi.org/10.2307/468154 Published: 01 March 2000
Suicide or Messianic Self-Sacrifice: Exhuming Willa's Body in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills
Black liberation struggle must be re-visioned so that it is no longer equated with maleness. (bell hooks, yearning) Since joining the burgeoning canon of contemporary Black women's fiction, Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills (1985) has generated much critical discussion not only for its associations with Dante [1] but also its damning depiction of the Black bourgeoisie. [2] However, while scholars have read the novel along these and other lines, and al…
Space Matters: Form and Narrative in Tsitsi Dangaremgba's Nervous Conditions
Tsitsi Dangaremgba's Conditions (1988) is an ingeniously written novel. Its appeal goes beyond Dangaremgba's arresting interest in (post) colonial, gender, and cultural politics and the fact that the novel came out at a moment in Zimbabwean history when there was little supportive space for women in that country who wished to write themselves into the public sphere and discourse by pursuing publishing careers, particularly in English language (se…
A Critical Divination: Reading Sula as Ogbanje-Abiku
Isn't it just possible that we are all abikus? ... [W]hy should there be some and not others? Why should the universe be distributed that way? (Ben Okri, Interview with Jane Wilkinson) Egbe here, Ugo here.... May the Hawk perch, [and] may the Eagle perch.... (Preface to Igbo proverb) Toni Morrison's second novel depicts in its marked title character one of the most fascinating figures in American fiction. It portrays, as it were, eccentric, power…
It Was Like Meeting an Old Friend: An Interview with John Edgar Wideman
Click for larger view Figure 1 John Edgar Wideman © Jean-Christian Bourcart [End Page 346] In his review of John Edgar Wideman's The Cattle Killing (1996), Philip Page declares, "Wideman has done it again. He has written another spellbinding, provocative—and difficult—novel" (African American Review Summer 1998: 32. 2). Page is right. Part of that difficulty arises from Wideman framing the narrative around ogbanje, an idea with which many of his …
Migration Blues in Jazz Styling: Spinning Them Overlooked Jazz and Blues Numbers in Brian Chikwava's Fiction
This essay contends that the narrator’s invocations of music in Harare North are not as serendipitous and isolated as they seem. Rather, jazz and blues function semiotically and axially in the story. I argue that together they serve, on the one hand, as a reminder of and an indirect authorial salute to Harare’s and, by extension, Zimbabwe’s urban music history, particularly its long tradition of jazz and blues. As one of Zimbabwe’s “cultural work…
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