Folasade Hunsu
Biographic Data
| ID | 6003695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Folasade Hunsu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Folasade |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunsu |
| SIGNATURE | HUNSU F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Obafemi Awolowo University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2829-2861 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Personal Citation, Rhetorical Practice and the Reinvention of Oríkì Tradition
This essay responds to the shaping influence of Yorùbá oríkì on personal citation, a written text that constructs individual identity in contemporary time. It reads personal citation as a cultural production that is realised through performance. Through a close reading of two purposively selected citation texts, the essay examines the various angles of interpolations between this written literature and the rhetorical practice of Yoruba oríkì. Spe…
Taboos and Their Subversion
This essay explores Oluremi Obasanjo’s reconceptualization, in Bitter-Sweet: My Life with Obasanjo, of the culturally defined proper African woman. Published at the pinnacle of her husband’s life as a respected political leader in Africa, the text is a compendium of personal details of their marital life. The study examines how the author-protagonist defies culturally imposed restrictions on female expression by engaging instances of male abuse, …
The Future of African Women's Autobiography
Autobiography occupies a central space in African women's writing as the primal genre through which African women have participated in the representation of African experience and the shaping of Af
Redefining otherness
This study seeks to examine how the Nigerian female writer Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo redefines otherness in Children of the Eagle by exploring the narrative elements of the sub-genre of fictional autobiography in centring female subjects. By foregrounding one of Regenia Gagnier’s descriptions of a subject—one that is “a subject to itself, an ‘I’, however difficult or even impossible it may be for others to understand this ‘I’ from its own viewpoint,…
Engendering an Alternative Approach to Otherness in African Women's Autobiography
This paper proposes an alternative approach to the reading of otherness in African women's autobiography. It is inspired by the Oloto proverbial of the Yoruba people of South West Nigeria which projects otherness as the uniqueness and power of the individual to speak for ‘self’ as an ‘other’. It examines the strategies employed by Wambui Otieno in her autobiography, Mau Mau's Daughter: A Life History to celebrate her otherness as defined by the O…
The Future of African Women's Autobiography
Autobiography occupies a central space in African women's writing as the primal genre through which African women have participated in the representation of African experience and the shaping of Af
Engendering an Alternative Approach to Otherness in African Women's Autobiography
This paper proposes an alternative approach to the reading of otherness in African women's autobiography. It is inspired by the Oloto proverbial of the Yoruba people of South West Nigeria which projects otherness as the uniqueness and power of the individual to speak for ‘self’ as an ‘other’. It examines the strategies employed by Wambui Otieno in her autobiography, Mau Mau's Daughter: A Life History to celebrate her otherness as defined by the O…
Engendering an Alternative Approach to Otherness in African Women's Autobiography
This paper proposes an alternative approach to the reading of otherness in African women's autobiography. It is inspired by the Oloto proverbial of the Yoruba people of South West Nigeria which projects otherness as the uniqueness and power of the individual to speak for ‘self’ as an ‘other’. It examines the strategies employed by Wambui Otieno in her autobiography, Mau Mau's Daughter: A Life History to celebrate her otherness as defined by the O…
The Future of African Women's Autobiography
Autobiography occupies a central space in African women's writing as the primal genre through which African women have participated in the representation of African experience and the shaping of Af
Redefining otherness
This study seeks to examine how the Nigerian female writer Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo redefines otherness in Children of the Eagle by exploring the narrative elements of the sub-genre of fictional autobiography in centring female subjects. By foregrounding one of Regenia Gagnier’s descriptions of a subject—one that is “a subject to itself, an ‘I’, however difficult or even impossible it may be for others to understand this ‘I’ from its own viewpoint,…
Taboos and Their Subversion
This essay explores Oluremi Obasanjo’s reconceptualization, in Bitter-Sweet: My Life with Obasanjo, of the culturally defined proper African woman. Published at the pinnacle of her husband’s life as a respected political leader in Africa, the text is a compendium of personal details of their marital life. The study examines how the author-protagonist defies culturally imposed restrictions on female expression by engaging instances of male abuse, …
Personal Citation, Rhetorical Practice and the Reinvention of Oríkì Tradition
This essay responds to the shaping influence of Yorùbá oríkì on personal citation, a written text that constructs individual identity in contemporary time. It reads personal citation as a cultural production that is realised through performance. Through a close reading of two purposively selected citation texts, the essay examines the various angles of interpolations between this written literature and the rhetorical practice of Yoruba oríkì. Spe…
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