Olabode Ibironke
Biographic Data
| ID | 5447791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olabode Ibironke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olabode |
| FAMILY NAME | Ibironke |
| SIGNATURE | IBIRONKE O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bernth Lindfors’s archive fever
Bernth Lindfors recently sent me a manuscript on Don Herdeck, which signals an active post-retirement research career. Herdeck famously published and promoted African literature for almost three decades in the United States. The biography of authors and figures such as Herdeck that constitute Lindfors’s forte is the more exciting aspect of the cold hard facts he spent his entire career investigating. Of what relevance is the material history of w…
Olabode Ibironke
West Africa
Rethinking African Cultural Production
The Fourth Stage
This article traces the origin and development of modern African literature in Ibadan, in the 1960s. It argues that Soyinka's famous concept, the Fourth Stage, is his attempt to capture the unique and transformative character of the city of Ibadan. A major portion of African literary history is mostly available through writers' autobiographies such as Soyinka's Ibadan . This article promotes the idea of reading more of these autobiographies as li…
The Ibadan Origins of Modern African Literature
This paper carries forward and develops the theme of the character of African writing as a product of a specific discipline of the imagination within the postcolonial city itself by evoking the genealogy of African literature. The emergence of the postcolonial city represented a moment of intense cultural outreach and the internationalization of African literary production. The production of African literature was as much a function of global reg…
The Paradox of Cultural Self-representation in Paule Marshall's Praisesong For The Widow
In this paper, I examine how Paule Marshall's Praisesong For The Widow, fictionalizes ‘migrations of the subject’. I argue that Praisesong explores the threshold between displacement, exile and prodigality. The paradox elaborated in this analysis is located precisely in how self-questioning ends up in self-affirmation; how conceptualisations of multiple subjectivities: migration or diaspora-isation decentre the subject, but also reinvents ‘the co…
Chinua Achebe and the political imperative of the African writer
Chinua Achebe and the political imperative of the African writer
The Paradox of Cultural Self-representation in Paule Marshall's Praisesong For The Widow
In this paper, I examine how Paule Marshall's Praisesong For The Widow, fictionalizes ‘migrations of the subject’. I argue that Praisesong explores the threshold between displacement, exile and prodigality. The paradox elaborated in this analysis is located precisely in how self-questioning ends up in self-affirmation; how conceptualisations of multiple subjectivities: migration or diaspora-isation decentre the subject, but also reinvents ‘the co…
Rethinking African Cultural Production
The Fourth Stage
This article traces the origin and development of modern African literature in Ibadan, in the 1960s. It argues that Soyinka's famous concept, the Fourth Stage, is his attempt to capture the unique and transformative character of the city of Ibadan. A major portion of African literary history is mostly available through writers' autobiographies such as Soyinka's Ibadan . This article promotes the idea of reading more of these autobiographies as li…
The Ibadan Origins of Modern African Literature
This paper carries forward and develops the theme of the character of African writing as a product of a specific discipline of the imagination within the postcolonial city itself by evoking the genealogy of African literature. The emergence of the postcolonial city represented a moment of intense cultural outreach and the internationalization of African literary production. The production of African literature was as much a function of global reg…
West Africa
Olabode Ibironke
Bernth Lindfors’s archive fever
Bernth Lindfors recently sent me a manuscript on Don Herdeck, which signals an active post-retirement research career. Herdeck famously published and promoted African literature for almost three decades in the United States. The biography of authors and figures such as Herdeck that constitute Lindfors’s forte is the more exciting aspect of the cold hard facts he spent his entire career investigating. Of what relevance is the material history of w…
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