Edwin Onwuka
Biographic Data
| ID | 8582403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edwin Onwuka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edwin |
| FAMILY NAME | Onwuka |
| SIGNATURE | ONWUKA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Covenant University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0286-9565 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Poetic Silence and Aesthetic Disruption in Clifton Gachagua’s Madman at Kilifi
This paper discusses how Clifton Gachagua’s Madman at Kilifi employs poetic silence and fragmented form to represent psychological trauma in postcolonial Kenya. The collection defies conventional lyric coherence, accentuating minimalism, ellipsis, and syntactic rupture to represent the fractured interiority of its speaker. The disjointed structure and sparse language of Gachagua’s work mirror the emotional disorientation and epistemic instability…
Portraits of the Nigerian Soldier in Isidore Okpewho’s The Last Duty and Festus Iyayi’s Heroes
An essential feature of Nigerian literatures is their capacity to exploit history and social experience to bring to light the human condition in society without compromising literary aesthetics. Thus, Nigerian novels often appear to be more educative than entertaining by their ability to illuminate social realities far more effectively than historical or sociological texts. This is evident in the representations of soldiers in Nigerian novels whi…
Versifying History and National Trauma in Tanure Ojaide’s The Endless Song
The symbiotic relationship between literature and history is most visible in the writer’s deployment of his or her art to document experiences of the past and their impacts on the feelings and well-being of his or her people in the periods represented in the work(s). This article explores the historical content and significance of Tanure Ojaide’s The Endless Song from a new historical perspective. Most studies on Ojaide’s poetry often focus on hi…
A Research-Based Evidence of the Effect of Graphic Organizers on the Understanding of Prose Fiction in ESL Classroom
Graphic organizers (GOs) are fast becoming acceptable standard instructional tools across subjects in the education arena globally. However, this visual representation of information is yet to be recognized and integrated into the teaching methods in Nigerian schools. This study, therefore, presents a research-based investigation of the usefulness of GOs in the appreciation of prose literature in Nigeria, with a view to foregrounding their use in…
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A Research-Based Evidence of the Effect of Graphic Organizers on the Understanding of Prose Fiction in ESL Classroom
Graphic organizers (GOs) are fast becoming acceptable standard instructional tools across subjects in the education arena globally. However, this visual representation of information is yet to be recognized and integrated into the teaching methods in Nigerian schools. This study, therefore, presents a research-based investigation of the usefulness of GOs in the appreciation of prose literature in Nigeria, with a view to foregrounding their use in…
Versifying History and National Trauma in Tanure Ojaide’s The Endless Song
The symbiotic relationship between literature and history is most visible in the writer’s deployment of his or her art to document experiences of the past and their impacts on the feelings and well-being of his or her people in the periods represented in the work(s). This article explores the historical content and significance of Tanure Ojaide’s The Endless Song from a new historical perspective. Most studies on Ojaide’s poetry often focus on hi…
Portraits of the Nigerian Soldier in Isidore Okpewho’s The Last Duty and Festus Iyayi’s Heroes
An essential feature of Nigerian literatures is their capacity to exploit history and social experience to bring to light the human condition in society without compromising literary aesthetics. Thus, Nigerian novels often appear to be more educative than entertaining by their ability to illuminate social realities far more effectively than historical or sociological texts. This is evident in the representations of soldiers in Nigerian novels whi…
Poetic Silence and Aesthetic Disruption in Clifton Gachagua’s Madman at Kilifi
This paper discusses how Clifton Gachagua’s Madman at Kilifi employs poetic silence and fragmented form to represent psychological trauma in postcolonial Kenya. The collection defies conventional lyric coherence, accentuating minimalism, ellipsis, and syntactic rupture to represent the fractured interiority of its speaker. The disjointed structure and sparse language of Gachagua’s work mirror the emotional disorientation and epistemic instability…
Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (2 works) · Criticism (2 works) · Foregrounding (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Political science (2 works)