Pius Adesanmi
Biographic Data
| ID | 760211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pius Adesanmi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pius |
| FAMILY NAME | Adesanmi |
| SIGNATURE | ADESANMI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Post-Global to Post-Truth: African Literature beyond Commonsense
This article discusses Tejumola Olaniyan’s submissions in his essay “African Literature in the Post-Global Age: Provocations on Field Commonsense” by problematizing some of his submissions on the temporalities, especially the global and the post-global, that have inflected the field of African literary discourse since the second half of the twentieth century. In doing this, the essay queries the idea that the category of the nation-state has been…
Introduction: Everything Good Is Raining: Provisional Notes on the Nigerian Novel of the Third Generation
The origins of this special issue of Research in African Literatures date back to 1998 when the guest editors, Pius Adesanmi and Chris Dunton, drew up plans to assemble a collection of essays on what we referred to as third-gen eration Nigerian writing. This resulted in a special issue of the South Africa-based journal English in Africa, titled New Nigerian Writing and published in 2005. The essays and reviews collected in that volume focused on …
Nous les Colonisés
Research Article| March 01 2004 “Nous les Colonisés”: REFLECTIONS ON THE TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF OPPRESSION Pius Adesanmi Pius Adesanmi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2004) 22 (1 (78)): 35–58. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-1_78-35 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Pius Adesanmi; “Nous les Colonisés”: REFLECTIONS ON THE TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF OPPRESSION. Socia…
Anti-Manichean aesthetics: The economy of space in Maryse Condé's Crossing the mangrove and Calixthe Beyala's Loukoum
The theory of space has arguably become one of the epistemological cornerstones of contemporary critical and cultural discourse. From the modernist postulates of Jurgen Habermas on the 'structural transformation' of the public sphere to Michel Foucault' s poststructuralist perspectivisation of the interface between power and social relations; from Arjun Appadurai's interest in the ethnoscapic dimension of new social formations in the global cultu…
The Many ?Spaces? of the African Writer: The Meeting of African Writers in Durban, South Africa, 2?7 March 1998
In March 1997, a group of South African writers was invited to a writers' festival in Djibouti, where they were able to exchange ideas with some of their counterparts from francophone Africa. success ofthe Djibouti experience led to the conception of a more elaborate follow-up that took place 2-7 March 1998 in the South African port city of Durban. Tagged The Time of the Writer and placed within the contentious thematic ambit of commitment, the f…
Literature across Boundaries: The Perception and Impact of Francophone African Literatures in South Africa
Despite the fact that the boundaries of the Apartheid state were constructed in a way that did not encourage literary and cultural transactions between that carceral space and the rest of the world, Francophone African literatures still managed to establish a marginal presence in South Africa, mainly within the context of the negritude debate. Today, a good number of South African Universities have incorporated writing from Francophone Africa int…
Jeunes, culture de la rue et violence urbaine en Afrique / Youth, Street Culture and Urban Violence in Africa: Actes du symposium international d’Abidjan, 5-7 mai 1997 / Proceedings of the Internation…
IFRA Ibadan L'Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (IFRA) est un organisme de recherches en sciences sociales dépendant du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et destiné à initier, stimuler et soutenir des travaux universitaires et scientifiques portant sur les pays anglophones d'Afrique et menés en coopération entre chercheurs français et africains. Implanté à l'origine à Nairobi au Kenya d'où il couvre l'Afrique Orientale, l'Institut s'est d…
Introduction: Everything Good Is Raining: Provisional Notes on the Nigerian Novel of the Third Generation
The origins of this special issue of Research in African Literatures date back to 1998 when the guest editors, Pius Adesanmi and Chris Dunton, drew up plans to assemble a collection of essays on what we referred to as third-gen eration Nigerian writing. This resulted in a special issue of the South Africa-based journal English in Africa, titled New Nigerian Writing and published in 2005. The essays and reviews collected in that volume focused on …
Nous les Colonisés
Research Article| March 01 2004 “Nous les Colonisés”: REFLECTIONS ON THE TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF OPPRESSION Pius Adesanmi Pius Adesanmi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2004) 22 (1 (78)): 35–58. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-1_78-35 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Pius Adesanmi; “Nous les Colonisés”: REFLECTIONS ON THE TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF OPPRESSION. Socia…
From Post-Global to Post-Truth: African Literature beyond Commonsense
This article discusses Tejumola Olaniyan’s submissions in his essay “African Literature in the Post-Global Age: Provocations on Field Commonsense” by problematizing some of his submissions on the temporalities, especially the global and the post-global, that have inflected the field of African literary discourse since the second half of the twentieth century. In doing this, the essay queries the idea that the category of the nation-state has been…
Literature across Boundaries: The Perception and Impact of Francophone African Literatures in South Africa
Despite the fact that the boundaries of the Apartheid state were constructed in a way that did not encourage literary and cultural transactions between that carceral space and the rest of the world, Francophone African literatures still managed to establish a marginal presence in South Africa, mainly within the context of the negritude debate. Today, a good number of South African Universities have incorporated writing from Francophone Africa int…
Jeunes, culture de la rue et violence urbaine en Afrique / Youth, Street Culture and Urban Violence in Africa: Actes du symposium international d’Abidjan, 5-7 mai 1997 / Proceedings of the Internation…
IFRA Ibadan L'Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (IFRA) est un organisme de recherches en sciences sociales dépendant du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et destiné à initier, stimuler et soutenir des travaux universitaires et scientifiques portant sur les pays anglophones d'Afrique et menés en coopération entre chercheurs français et africains. Implanté à l'origine à Nairobi au Kenya d'où il couvre l'Afrique Orientale, l'Institut s'est d…
The Many ?Spaces? of the African Writer: The Meeting of African Writers in Durban, South Africa, 2?7 March 1998
In March 1997, a group of South African writers was invited to a writers' festival in Djibouti, where they were able to exchange ideas with some of their counterparts from francophone Africa. success ofthe Djibouti experience led to the conception of a more elaborate follow-up that took place 2-7 March 1998 in the South African port city of Durban. Tagged The Time of the Writer and placed within the contentious thematic ambit of commitment, the f…
Literature across Boundaries: The Perception and Impact of Francophone African Literatures in South Africa
Despite the fact that the boundaries of the Apartheid state were constructed in a way that did not encourage literary and cultural transactions between that carceral space and the rest of the world, Francophone African literatures still managed to establish a marginal presence in South Africa, mainly within the context of the negritude debate. Today, a good number of South African Universities have incorporated writing from Francophone Africa int…
Anti-Manichean aesthetics: The economy of space in Maryse Condé's Crossing the mangrove and Calixthe Beyala's Loukoum
The theory of space has arguably become one of the epistemological cornerstones of contemporary critical and cultural discourse. From the modernist postulates of Jurgen Habermas on the 'structural transformation' of the public sphere to Michel Foucault' s poststructuralist perspectivisation of the interface between power and social relations; from Arjun Appadurai's interest in the ethnoscapic dimension of new social formations in the global cultu…
Nous les Colonisés
Research Article| March 01 2004 “Nous les Colonisés”: REFLECTIONS ON THE TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF OPPRESSION Pius Adesanmi Pius Adesanmi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2004) 22 (1 (78)): 35–58. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-1_78-35 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Pius Adesanmi; “Nous les Colonisés”: REFLECTIONS ON THE TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF OPPRESSION. Socia…
Introduction: Everything Good Is Raining: Provisional Notes on the Nigerian Novel of the Third Generation
The origins of this special issue of Research in African Literatures date back to 1998 when the guest editors, Pius Adesanmi and Chris Dunton, drew up plans to assemble a collection of essays on what we referred to as third-gen eration Nigerian writing. This resulted in a special issue of the South Africa-based journal English in Africa, titled New Nigerian Writing and published in 2005. The essays and reviews collected in that volume focused on …
From Post-Global to Post-Truth: African Literature beyond Commonsense
This article discusses Tejumola Olaniyan’s submissions in his essay “African Literature in the Post-Global Age: Provocations on Field Commonsense” by problematizing some of his submissions on the temporalities, especially the global and the post-global, that have inflected the field of African literary discourse since the second half of the twentieth century. In doing this, the essay queries the idea that the category of the nation-state has been…
Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)