Alvan Ikoku
Biographic Data
| ID | 6403029 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alvan Ikoku |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alvan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ikoku |
| SIGNATURE | IKOKU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reading Malaria Literature
Reading Malaria Literature Alvan A. Ikoku (bio) There is a passage in Karen Blixen’s 1937 memoir, Out of Africa, that illustrates a vital task for contemporary work in literature and medicine: namely, to elucidate the ways literature was central to the constitution of modern medical discourse concerning Africa, producing a corpus on the continent that should be read with a supple mode of attention drawn from advances in humanistic as well as clin…
Forêts del Sur and the Pretexts of Glissant's Tout-Monde
This essay details the implications of focusing on the forest as a point of figuration and analysis for a world literature emanating from English-, French-, and Spanish-language work on the Caribbean. Of primary interest are two instances of meta- and paratextual comment on forests in the South: André Breton and André Masson's Martinique: Charmeuse de serpents and Alejo Carpentier's uses of José Martí and Wifredo Lam in his prologue to El reino d…
Refusal in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”: Narrative Ethics and Conscientious Objection
Forêts del Sur and the Pretexts of Glissant's Tout-Monde
This essay details the implications of focusing on the forest as a point of figuration and analysis for a world literature emanating from English-, French-, and Spanish-language work on the Caribbean. Of primary interest are two instances of meta- and paratextual comment on forests in the South: André Breton and André Masson's Martinique: Charmeuse de serpents and Alejo Carpentier's uses of José Martí and Wifredo Lam in his prologue to El reino d…
Refusal in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”: Narrative Ethics and Conscientious Objection
Forêts del Sur and the Pretexts of Glissant's Tout-Monde
This essay details the implications of focusing on the forest as a point of figuration and analysis for a world literature emanating from English-, French-, and Spanish-language work on the Caribbean. Of primary interest are two instances of meta- and paratextual comment on forests in the South: André Breton and André Masson's Martinique: Charmeuse de serpents and Alejo Carpentier's uses of José Martí and Wifredo Lam in his prologue to El reino d…
Reading Malaria Literature
Reading Malaria Literature Alvan A. Ikoku (bio) There is a passage in Karen Blixen’s 1937 memoir, Out of Africa, that illustrates a vital task for contemporary work in literature and medicine: namely, to elucidate the ways literature was central to the constitution of modern medical discourse concerning Africa, producing a corpus on the continent that should be read with a supple mode of attention drawn from advances in humanistic as well as clin…
Art history (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Bioethics (1 works)