Chike Okoye
Biographic Data
| ID | 6003281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chike Okoye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chike |
| FAMILY NAME | Okoye |
| SIGNATURE | OKOYE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nnamdi Azikiwe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5210-1079 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From minstrelsy to the spoken word poet
This paper attempts to trace the influences, interactions, conflations and developmental trajectories that link the ancient art of oral chants, poetry, minstrelsy, and the contemporary and modernist spoken word versifications in practice today in Nigeria. Audience, form, content, and intent have been pivotal factors in the different epochs that separate the ancient precursors and the present forms in this performance matrix. Through ethnographic …
Speculative vertices, Ogun mythopoesis, and (the) fourth/further stage(s)
Wole Soyinka’s seminal essay, “The Fourth Stage: Through the Mysteries of Ogun to the Origin of Yoruba Tragedy” which appears as appendix in his collection of critical essays, Myth, Literature and the African World (1976), has been read and critiqued as an important work of myth, mythopoesis, tragedy and the Yoruba pantheon. To date, no meta-critical study has yet treated the essay as essentially speculative fiction, or as an invented model or co…
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From minstrelsy to the spoken word poet
This paper attempts to trace the influences, interactions, conflations and developmental trajectories that link the ancient art of oral chants, poetry, minstrelsy, and the contemporary and modernist spoken word versifications in practice today in Nigeria. Audience, form, content, and intent have been pivotal factors in the different epochs that separate the ancient precursors and the present forms in this performance matrix. Through ethnographic …
Speculative vertices, Ogun mythopoesis, and (the) fourth/further stage(s)
Wole Soyinka’s seminal essay, “The Fourth Stage: Through the Mysteries of Ogun to the Origin of Yoruba Tragedy” which appears as appendix in his collection of critical essays, Myth, Literature and the African World (1976), has been read and critiqued as an important work of myth, mythopoesis, tragedy and the Yoruba pantheon. To date, no meta-critical study has yet treated the essay as essentially speculative fiction, or as an invented model or co…
Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Yoruba (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)