Ernest Cole
Biographic Data
| ID | 6879488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ernest Cole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ernest |
| FAMILY NAME | Cole |
| SIGNATURE | COLE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hope College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aesthetic transgression, writing pain, and the construction of female subjectivities: Joyce Ash’s Beautiful Fire
Joyce Ash’s Beautiful Fire focuses on womanhood and its thematization in multiple contexts. In this collection of poems, she presents a historical trajectory of the struggles of the woman for self-definition. Her exploration of the plight of womanhood sheds light on cultural stereotypes associated with such figuration as she seeks to contest and reconfigure female identity in new cultural and geo-political spaces. In this paper, I explore the mea…
Introduction: Eustace Palmer, Critic, Novelist & Teacher
This meta-criticism of Eustace Palmer’s approach to literary criticism seeks to affirm the work of one of the most influential pioneers of criticism of the African novel and one of the first to come up with a set of criteria for evaluating the genre. I content that Palmer deserves a place in any work devoted to a criticism of the African novel. In this Introduction to a Critical Series on Eustace Palmer, I return to the 1970s debate between Adeol…
Adeola James and the problem of subjectivity: Eustace ‘Palmer’s Plea for Objectivity’
In this essay, I use James’ paper on the role of the critic and Palmer’s response to shed light on the problematics of developing an aesthetics of criticism of the African novel. I begin with a broad survey of the critical responses to the controversy and then explore specific aspects of James’ argument. In my analysis of James’ review, I use Berger’s construct of the ‘subjective’ in juxtaposition with Palmer’s conception of the ‘objective’ as st…
Imaginative representations of illicit and conflict diamonds in the Sierra Leone Civil War: From paradox and ambiguity to traumatized national psychology
The history of Sierra Leone cannot be fully understood without reference to the connections between diamonds and politics. The economy of Sierra Leone is so closely tied to revenue from diamonds that the success or failure of government rests to a large extent on its exploration. The crucial role of diamonds in the politics of Sierra Leone, especially its connections to power and hegemony, makes it a potential source of conflict. In the corpus of…
Rereading Violence and Trauma in Post-Conflict Societies: Aminatta Forna’s Happiness
Happiness explores the themes of violence and trauma as one of its fundamental concerns. In this regard, the character and role of Dr. Attila Asare, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, is crucial to understanding Forna’s theorizations on trauma and advancement of a new hypothesis on its manifestations and possibilities of recovery. In laying the foundation for the articulation of his new theory of trauma, Attila gives us a window into violence in two differ…
Decentering anthropocentrism: Human-animal relations in Aminatta Forna’s Happiness
In this paper, I argue that Happiness focuses on interspecies relations by decentering man from a position of superiority over animals to interdependence between humans and animals. I contend that Happiness provides a basis for exploration of the theme of interspecies relations, while it articulates Forna's concerns for the environment and its connections to ecocritical theory and post-colonial studies. I use her essay, "Wilder Things," in tandem…
Interview with Aminatta Forna – 16 June 2017
Demystifying the Unfamiliar: Competing Discourses and the Pedagogy of Agency in Things Fall Apart and Poems from Sierra Leone
(2014). Demystifying the Unfamiliar: Competing Discourses and the Pedagogy of Agency in Things Fall Apart and Poems from Sierra Leone. Journal of the African Literature Association: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 10-31
Nadine Gordimer and Post-Apartheid Interregnum: An Analysis of July’s People
Nadine Gordimer and Post-Apartheid Interregnum: An Analysis of July’s People." Journal of the African Literature Association, 2(1), pp. 60–82
Imaginative representations of illicit and conflict diamonds in the Sierra Leone Civil War: From paradox and ambiguity to traumatized national psychology
The history of Sierra Leone cannot be fully understood without reference to the connections between diamonds and politics. The economy of Sierra Leone is so closely tied to revenue from diamonds that the success or failure of government rests to a large extent on its exploration. The crucial role of diamonds in the politics of Sierra Leone, especially its connections to power and hegemony, makes it a potential source of conflict. In the corpus of…
Decentering anthropocentrism: Human-animal relations in Aminatta Forna’s Happiness
In this paper, I argue that Happiness focuses on interspecies relations by decentering man from a position of superiority over animals to interdependence between humans and animals. I contend that Happiness provides a basis for exploration of the theme of interspecies relations, while it articulates Forna's concerns for the environment and its connections to ecocritical theory and post-colonial studies. I use her essay, "Wilder Things," in tandem…
Interview with Aminatta Forna – 16 June 2017
Nadine Gordimer and Post-Apartheid Interregnum: An Analysis of July’s People
Nadine Gordimer and Post-Apartheid Interregnum: An Analysis of July’s People." Journal of the African Literature Association, 2(1), pp. 60–82
Nadine Gordimer and Post-Apartheid Interregnum: An Analysis of July’s People
Nadine Gordimer and Post-Apartheid Interregnum: An Analysis of July’s People." Journal of the African Literature Association, 2(1), pp. 60–82
Demystifying the Unfamiliar: Competing Discourses and the Pedagogy of Agency in Things Fall Apart and Poems from Sierra Leone
(2014). Demystifying the Unfamiliar: Competing Discourses and the Pedagogy of Agency in Things Fall Apart and Poems from Sierra Leone. Journal of the African Literature Association: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 10-31
Interview with Aminatta Forna – 16 June 2017
Decentering anthropocentrism: Human-animal relations in Aminatta Forna’s Happiness
In this paper, I argue that Happiness focuses on interspecies relations by decentering man from a position of superiority over animals to interdependence between humans and animals. I contend that Happiness provides a basis for exploration of the theme of interspecies relations, while it articulates Forna's concerns for the environment and its connections to ecocritical theory and post-colonial studies. I use her essay, "Wilder Things," in tandem…
Imaginative representations of illicit and conflict diamonds in the Sierra Leone Civil War: From paradox and ambiguity to traumatized national psychology
The history of Sierra Leone cannot be fully understood without reference to the connections between diamonds and politics. The economy of Sierra Leone is so closely tied to revenue from diamonds that the success or failure of government rests to a large extent on its exploration. The crucial role of diamonds in the politics of Sierra Leone, especially its connections to power and hegemony, makes it a potential source of conflict. In the corpus of…
Rereading Violence and Trauma in Post-Conflict Societies: Aminatta Forna’s Happiness
Happiness explores the themes of violence and trauma as one of its fundamental concerns. In this regard, the character and role of Dr. Attila Asare, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, is crucial to understanding Forna’s theorizations on trauma and advancement of a new hypothesis on its manifestations and possibilities of recovery. In laying the foundation for the articulation of his new theory of trauma, Attila gives us a window into violence in two differ…
Introduction: Eustace Palmer, Critic, Novelist & Teacher
This meta-criticism of Eustace Palmer’s approach to literary criticism seeks to affirm the work of one of the most influential pioneers of criticism of the African novel and one of the first to come up with a set of criteria for evaluating the genre. I content that Palmer deserves a place in any work devoted to a criticism of the African novel. In this Introduction to a Critical Series on Eustace Palmer, I return to the 1970s debate between Adeol…
Adeola James and the problem of subjectivity: Eustace ‘Palmer’s Plea for Objectivity’
In this essay, I use James’ paper on the role of the critic and Palmer’s response to shed light on the problematics of developing an aesthetics of criticism of the African novel. I begin with a broad survey of the critical responses to the controversy and then explore specific aspects of James’ argument. In my analysis of James’ review, I use Berger’s construct of the ‘subjective’ in juxtaposition with Palmer’s conception of the ‘objective’ as st…
Aesthetic transgression, writing pain, and the construction of female subjectivities: Joyce Ash’s Beautiful Fire
Joyce Ash’s Beautiful Fire focuses on womanhood and its thematization in multiple contexts. In this collection of poems, she presents a historical trajectory of the struggles of the woman for self-definition. Her exploration of the plight of womanhood sheds light on cultural stereotypes associated with such figuration as she seeks to contest and reconfigure female identity in new cultural and geo-political spaces. In this paper, I explore the mea…
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