Lekan Oyegoke
Biographic Data
| ID | 6827914 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lekan Oyegoke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lekan |
| FAMILY NAME | Oyegoke |
| SIGNATURE | OYEGOKE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Botswana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aesthetics, Crosses of Yokes and Honour in Lauretta G. Ngcobo’s Cross of Gold
The proposition seems tenable that the aesthetics of Lauretta G. Ngcobo’s creative imagination is considerably underwritten by Cross of Gold. The intertextual dynamics that undergird her first novel confirm her as erudite, travelled and widely exposed to good old belles-lettres. Additional to the manifest mark of the author’s learning and socio-cultural savvy, the novel is rendered in exquisite prose that is evidence of a masterly command of Engl…
Boleswa Writing And Weathercock Aesthetics Of African Literature
Postmodernist “thinking about thinking” allows for speculative reflection which avers that “Boleswa literature” like “African literature” is non-existent. Basic to this kind of proposition is the suggestion by Saussurean linguistics of systemic differential and oppositional relation in language between sound image and concept and the Barthesian postulation of a semiological associative distinction between signifier, signified and sign in the stud…
Survival Roads and Narrative Strategies
This article attempts to highlight a few notable features of African writing which formulate themselves into survival and narrative strategies not only on the parts of fictional personages and milieus but also those of literary traditions, conventions, and the story‐tellers themselves. Different aspects of the landscape, such as the road, river, forest, etc., are often of metaphysical and aesthetic value in the writing, and these elements are han…
The dynamics of postcoloniality in literature
This article attempts an examination of the issue of postcoloniality as a theory of literature with special reference to the African literary experience. It reviews some of the fears raised in respect of postcoloniality as it is at present propounded and practised; for example, the tendency to adopt in its argument some of the false premises of “discredited” older theories from which it seeks to distance itself. I try to show in this paper that p…
Aesthetics, Crosses of Yokes and Honour in Lauretta G. Ngcobo’s Cross of Gold
The proposition seems tenable that the aesthetics of Lauretta G. Ngcobo’s creative imagination is considerably underwritten by Cross of Gold. The intertextual dynamics that undergird her first novel confirm her as erudite, travelled and widely exposed to good old belles-lettres. Additional to the manifest mark of the author’s learning and socio-cultural savvy, the novel is rendered in exquisite prose that is evidence of a masterly command of Engl…
Survival Roads and Narrative Strategies
This article attempts to highlight a few notable features of African writing which formulate themselves into survival and narrative strategies not only on the parts of fictional personages and milieus but also those of literary traditions, conventions, and the story‐tellers themselves. Different aspects of the landscape, such as the road, river, forest, etc., are often of metaphysical and aesthetic value in the writing, and these elements are han…
The dynamics of postcoloniality in literature
This article attempts an examination of the issue of postcoloniality as a theory of literature with special reference to the African literary experience. It reviews some of the fears raised in respect of postcoloniality as it is at present propounded and practised; for example, the tendency to adopt in its argument some of the false premises of “discredited” older theories from which it seeks to distance itself. I try to show in this paper that p…
Boleswa Writing And Weathercock Aesthetics Of African Literature
Postmodernist “thinking about thinking” allows for speculative reflection which avers that “Boleswa literature” like “African literature” is non-existent. Basic to this kind of proposition is the suggestion by Saussurean linguistics of systemic differential and oppositional relation in language between sound image and concept and the Barthesian postulation of a semiological associative distinction between signifier, signified and sign in the stud…
Aesthetics, Crosses of Yokes and Honour in Lauretta G. Ngcobo’s Cross of Gold
The proposition seems tenable that the aesthetics of Lauretta G. Ngcobo’s creative imagination is considerably underwritten by Cross of Gold. The intertextual dynamics that undergird her first novel confirm her as erudite, travelled and widely exposed to good old belles-lettres. Additional to the manifest mark of the author’s learning and socio-cultural savvy, the novel is rendered in exquisite prose that is evidence of a masterly command of Engl…
Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (1 work)