Jerome Masamaka
Biographic Data
| ID | 5156048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerome Masamaka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerome |
| FAMILY NAME | Masamaka |
| SIGNATURE | MASAMAKA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1723-5143 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Revisiting nonhuman agency in African ecocriticism: The precarity of coastal life in the poetry of Kofi Awoonor and Kofi Anyidoho
One major intervention in ecocriticism is the notion of nonhuman agency, which acknowledges nonhuman bodies as active agents of consequential power, action, and reaction, especially in relation to human willpower and intentionality. Bruno Latour’s Actor Network Theory and Jane Bennett’s thing power have energized new materialists and material ecocritics to reconfigure power relations in ways that foreground nonhuman actions even in human activiti…
What Can the Lyric Voice Do in Climate Change Poetry? A Re-Reading of Andrew Motion’s ‘The Sorcerer’s Mirror’
This article explores the lyric strategy Andrew Motion adopts in his inaugural climate change poem, ‘The Sorcerer’s Mirror’, in the light of arguments against the lyric’s suitability for articulating climate change concerns. Contrary to scepticism from critics about the usefulness of Motion’s lyric approach, the article argues that Motion’s use of an integrated lyric point-of-view effectively articulates an interplay of public and personal sentim…
Ayi Kwei Armah's secular egalitarian Africa: An authentic vision or a utopian dialectic
Conscious of the socio-political degeneration of the African continent, most African writers have embraced political theories in their artistic speculation on the future of Africa. Authors like Osmane Sembene and Ngugi wa Thiong'o have offered Marxist views in their writing whereas others like Wole Soyinka and Kofi Awoonor have favoured African traditional worldview as useful framework for a more coherent African cultural and political regenerati…
Ayi Kwei Armah's secular egalitarian Africa: An authentic vision or a utopian dialectic
Conscious of the socio-political degeneration of the African continent, most African writers have embraced political theories in their artistic speculation on the future of Africa. Authors like Osmane Sembene and Ngugi wa Thiong'o have offered Marxist views in their writing whereas others like Wole Soyinka and Kofi Awoonor have favoured African traditional worldview as useful framework for a more coherent African cultural and political regenerati…
Ayi Kwei Armah's secular egalitarian Africa: An authentic vision or a utopian dialectic
Conscious of the socio-political degeneration of the African continent, most African writers have embraced political theories in their artistic speculation on the future of Africa. Authors like Osmane Sembene and Ngugi wa Thiong'o have offered Marxist views in their writing whereas others like Wole Soyinka and Kofi Awoonor have favoured African traditional worldview as useful framework for a more coherent African cultural and political regenerati…
What Can the Lyric Voice Do in Climate Change Poetry? A Re-Reading of Andrew Motion’s ‘The Sorcerer’s Mirror’
This article explores the lyric strategy Andrew Motion adopts in his inaugural climate change poem, ‘The Sorcerer’s Mirror’, in the light of arguments against the lyric’s suitability for articulating climate change concerns. Contrary to scepticism from critics about the usefulness of Motion’s lyric approach, the article argues that Motion’s use of an integrated lyric point-of-view effectively articulates an interplay of public and personal sentim…
Revisiting nonhuman agency in African ecocriticism: The precarity of coastal life in the poetry of Kofi Awoonor and Kofi Anyidoho
One major intervention in ecocriticism is the notion of nonhuman agency, which acknowledges nonhuman bodies as active agents of consequential power, action, and reaction, especially in relation to human willpower and intentionality. Bruno Latour’s Actor Network Theory and Jane Bennett’s thing power have energized new materialists and material ecocritics to reconfigure power relations in ways that foreground nonhuman actions even in human activiti…
Art (2 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 works)