Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
Biographic Data
| ID | 92376 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uchechukwu Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Umezurike |
| SIGNATURE | UMEZURIKE U P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7368-7681 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction
Reveals how Nigerian writers redefine masculinity to challenge social norms and affirm relationalities Represents one of the first book-length works on Nigerian masculinities, given literary critics’ scant investigations of men as salient sites for rethinking gender identity Incorporates a Nigerian cultural perspective that centres the family as a site for the contestation of male hegemony Reframes conversations on gender by bringing in queer nar…
Disposable Bodies
This article examines figures of disability in the poetry of D. M. Aderibigbe to illuminate the fate of disabled Nigerians. It considers the connections between disability and social norms, showing how normative masculinity is implicated in the killings of persons with disabilities. It draws on Chielozona Eze’s discussion of disability and Judith Butler’s concept of grievability to analyze Aderibigbe’s critique of normative culture, while situati…
“A Pilgrim with Swelling Visions”
Review of: Otiono, Nduka. DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2001
Everything in this new world, a wound’
There is a new generation of Somali poets in the United States and Europe, mainly women, writing about home, war, migration, and diaspora. This paper examines the Somali American poet Jamila Osman's critiques of hospitality and sexual violence against women. The aim of this article is twofold: I first examine Osman's poetic representation of hospitality, dramatized by an encounter between a Canadian border official and a female African refugee at…
The Raven
Poem
‘I Choose Life’
Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North dramatizes the violence of colonialism and patriarchy and their impact on the African psyche. This article shifts from the prevailing scholarship on Mustafa, the main protagonist, to locate hope in what one does, not merely as an abstract concept. The unnamed narrator exemplifies Salih’s vision of a postcolonial subject that recognizes the perils of binary thinking and aspires instead toward an ethic…
Justice and human rights in the African imagination
Justice and human rights in the African imagination: We, too, are humans." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 58(3), pp. 427–428
Omelora
This paper examines the connections between masculinity and orthodoxy in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus to underscore the intersections of gender, class, religion, and ethnicity. Adichie depicts two contradictory figures of Catholic orthodoxy, namely, Eugene and Father Amadi and the consequences of their performances of masculinity. Where Eugene enacts violence on his family in the name of piety, Father Amadi demonstrates receptivity …
A son who is a man
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart narrates the contestations of performing masculinity in precolonial Nigeria. Employing ideas by Michael Slote and Judith Butler, I focus on Nwoye’s character to show how Achebe deploys him to undermine social norms. Nwoye refuses to be a man in the traditional sense, thus enacting an alternative subjectivity in conflict with the hegemonic masculinity projected by his father. I argue that Achebe has created a char…
Self-publishing in the era of military rule in Nigeria, 1985-1999
Nigeria appears to have the largest book market in Africa, aided by its population and oil wealth. However, its publishing industry has experienced more setbacks than successes. Military rule marked a watershed in the nation's political history, causing the breakdown of much of the publishing industry, among other things. What was the state of book publishing during the mid-1980s to the late 1990s of the military era? What were the channels of pu…
Land of cemetery
This paper focuses on Musa Idris Okpanachi’s poetry: The Eaters of the Living (2007), From the Margins of Paradise (2012), and Music of the Dead (2016). Nigeria, even after the military had relinquished power over a decade ago, is still faced with the issues that provoked the trope of protest in much of the poetry published between the mid-eighties and late nineties. Okpanachi’s poetry revisits these issues, demonstrating that democracy has been …
Self-publishing in the era of military rule in Nigeria, 1985-1999
Nigeria appears to have the largest book market in Africa, aided by its population and oil wealth. However, its publishing industry has experienced more setbacks than successes. Military rule marked a watershed in the nation's political history, causing the breakdown of much of the publishing industry, among other things. What was the state of book publishing during the mid-1980s to the late 1990s of the military era? What were the channels of pu…
A son who is a man
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart narrates the contestations of performing masculinity in precolonial Nigeria. Employing ideas by Michael Slote and Judith Butler, I focus on Nwoye’s character to show how Achebe deploys him to undermine social norms. Nwoye refuses to be a man in the traditional sense, thus enacting an alternative subjectivity in conflict with the hegemonic masculinity projected by his father. I argue that Achebe has created a char…
Omelora
This paper examines the connections between masculinity and orthodoxy in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus to underscore the intersections of gender, class, religion, and ethnicity. Adichie depicts two contradictory figures of Catholic orthodoxy, namely, Eugene and Father Amadi and the consequences of their performances of masculinity. Where Eugene enacts violence on his family in the name of piety, Father Amadi demonstrates receptivity …
Everything in this new world, a wound’
There is a new generation of Somali poets in the United States and Europe, mainly women, writing about home, war, migration, and diaspora. This paper examines the Somali American poet Jamila Osman's critiques of hospitality and sexual violence against women. The aim of this article is twofold: I first examine Osman's poetic representation of hospitality, dramatized by an encounter between a Canadian border official and a female African refugee at…
Land of cemetery
This paper focuses on Musa Idris Okpanachi’s poetry: The Eaters of the Living (2007), From the Margins of Paradise (2012), and Music of the Dead (2016). Nigeria, even after the military had relinquished power over a decade ago, is still faced with the issues that provoked the trope of protest in much of the poetry published between the mid-eighties and late nineties. Okpanachi’s poetry revisits these issues, demonstrating that democracy has been …
Self-publishing in the era of military rule in Nigeria, 1985-1999
Nigeria appears to have the largest book market in Africa, aided by its population and oil wealth. However, its publishing industry has experienced more setbacks than successes. Military rule marked a watershed in the nation's political history, causing the breakdown of much of the publishing industry, among other things. What was the state of book publishing during the mid-1980s to the late 1990s of the military era? What were the channels of pu…
A son who is a man
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart narrates the contestations of performing masculinity in precolonial Nigeria. Employing ideas by Michael Slote and Judith Butler, I focus on Nwoye’s character to show how Achebe deploys him to undermine social norms. Nwoye refuses to be a man in the traditional sense, thus enacting an alternative subjectivity in conflict with the hegemonic masculinity projected by his father. I argue that Achebe has created a char…
The Raven
Poem
‘I Choose Life’
Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North dramatizes the violence of colonialism and patriarchy and their impact on the African psyche. This article shifts from the prevailing scholarship on Mustafa, the main protagonist, to locate hope in what one does, not merely as an abstract concept. The unnamed narrator exemplifies Salih’s vision of a postcolonial subject that recognizes the perils of binary thinking and aspires instead toward an ethic…
Justice and human rights in the African imagination
Justice and human rights in the African imagination: We, too, are humans." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 58(3), pp. 427–428
Omelora
This paper examines the connections between masculinity and orthodoxy in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus to underscore the intersections of gender, class, religion, and ethnicity. Adichie depicts two contradictory figures of Catholic orthodoxy, namely, Eugene and Father Amadi and the consequences of their performances of masculinity. Where Eugene enacts violence on his family in the name of piety, Father Amadi demonstrates receptivity …
“A Pilgrim with Swelling Visions”
Review of: Otiono, Nduka. DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2001
Everything in this new world, a wound’
There is a new generation of Somali poets in the United States and Europe, mainly women, writing about home, war, migration, and diaspora. This paper examines the Somali American poet Jamila Osman's critiques of hospitality and sexual violence against women. The aim of this article is twofold: I first examine Osman's poetic representation of hospitality, dramatized by an encounter between a Canadian border official and a female African refugee at…
Disposable Bodies
This article examines figures of disability in the poetry of D. M. Aderibigbe to illuminate the fate of disabled Nigerians. It considers the connections between disability and social norms, showing how normative masculinity is implicated in the killings of persons with disabilities. It draws on Chielozona Eze’s discussion of disability and Judith Butler’s concept of grievability to analyze Aderibigbe’s critique of normative culture, while situati…
Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction
Reveals how Nigerian writers redefine masculinity to challenge social norms and affirm relationalities Represents one of the first book-length works on Nigerian masculinities, given literary critics’ scant investigations of men as salient sites for rethinking gender identity Incorporates a Nigerian cultural perspective that centres the family as a site for the contestation of male hegemony Reframes conversations on gender by bringing in queer nar…
Political science (5 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works)