Ogochukwu Ukwueze
Biographic Data
| ID | 4052547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ogochukwu Ukwueze |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ogochukwu |
| FAMILY NAME | Ukwueze |
| SIGNATURE | UKWUEZE O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nigeria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7769-478X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Remaking the Right to Mourn
In Africa, mourning is both a personal and communal expression of grief. Among the rationales for commiseration or shared mourning is a recognition of the bereaved person's loss and pain. This recognition of grief is culturally believed to help the bereaved walk through grief. However, the right to mourn and be recognized as an ideal mourner is contingent on some ideals of being and relations that invalidate the grief of any mourner outside this …
Ịkwashị Enya M’nyi
In Africa, death is considered a communal loss and mourning performed communally. The various ways mourning is performed beg the question of their underlying logic and significance. For instance, in some African societies, members of the family are ‘obligated’ to weep, shave their hair, etc. Recently, these mourning practices are criticized in some quarters for their cost-intensiveness and dehumanizing tendency. In response, I argue that performe…
Nomadic consciousness and border crossing in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater
This paper demonstrates that two novels of European and African origins, Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925) and Emezi’s Freshwater (2018) share a common discursive formative. Nomadism, it is argued, constitutes the consciousness behind the textual formation of the two stories, and this consciousness informs the trajectory of border crossing observable in the two novels in terms of narration, characterization and incidents. The subjects in the stories mo…
Ecobordering
Considering the literary response to the environmental crisis in the Niger Delta, it is observable that most critics of the literary arts on the Niger Delta homogenise the effects of the environmental problem, rather than focusing on particular groups of ecological subjects. These critics universalise environmental discourse, thereby overlooking more silenced and marginalised ecological subjects and subverting environmental justice. Using Helon H…
Return migration, failed reintegration and tragedy in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
Do affluence and skilfulness render a returnee immune to reintegration challenges? Beyond psychosocial support, would a wealthy returnee need any other form of assistance for a sustainable reintegration? Drawing upon theoretical ideas from the field of return migration, this study considers reintegration as a key issue for all returnees, irrespective of financial status, class or skilfulness, the failure of which is a disastrous end. This end exp…
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Return migration, failed reintegration and tragedy in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
Do affluence and skilfulness render a returnee immune to reintegration challenges? Beyond psychosocial support, would a wealthy returnee need any other form of assistance for a sustainable reintegration? Drawing upon theoretical ideas from the field of return migration, this study considers reintegration as a key issue for all returnees, irrespective of financial status, class or skilfulness, the failure of which is a disastrous end. This end exp…
Nomadic consciousness and border crossing in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater
This paper demonstrates that two novels of European and African origins, Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925) and Emezi’s Freshwater (2018) share a common discursive formative. Nomadism, it is argued, constitutes the consciousness behind the textual formation of the two stories, and this consciousness informs the trajectory of border crossing observable in the two novels in terms of narration, characterization and incidents. The subjects in the stories mo…
Ecobordering
Considering the literary response to the environmental crisis in the Niger Delta, it is observable that most critics of the literary arts on the Niger Delta homogenise the effects of the environmental problem, rather than focusing on particular groups of ecological subjects. These critics universalise environmental discourse, thereby overlooking more silenced and marginalised ecological subjects and subverting environmental justice. Using Helon H…
Ịkwashị Enya M’nyi
In Africa, death is considered a communal loss and mourning performed communally. The various ways mourning is performed beg the question of their underlying logic and significance. For instance, in some African societies, members of the family are ‘obligated’ to weep, shave their hair, etc. Recently, these mourning practices are criticized in some quarters for their cost-intensiveness and dehumanizing tendency. In response, I argue that performe…
Remaking the Right to Mourn
In Africa, mourning is both a personal and communal expression of grief. Among the rationales for commiseration or shared mourning is a recognition of the bereaved person's loss and pain. This recognition of grief is culturally believed to help the bereaved walk through grief. However, the right to mourn and be recognized as an ideal mourner is contingent on some ideals of being and relations that invalidate the grief of any mourner outside this …
Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 work) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work)