Olakunle George
Biographic Data
| ID | 996823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olakunle George |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olakunle |
| FAMILY NAME | George |
| SIGNATURE | GEORGE O |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Companion to African Literatures
Companion to African Literatures
Philip Quaque's Letters to London, 1765-1811/Arts of Being Yorùbá
Returning to Jeyifo's The Yoruba Popular Travelling Theatre of Nigeria
The essay discusses Biodun Jeyifo's first book, The Yoruba Popular Travelling Theatre of Nigeria, published in 1984. The analysis demonstrates the continuing importance of the book for “African Humanities” and cultural studies scholarship at the present time
Re-Narrating the Post-Global
This essay is a brief response to Tejumola Olaniyan’s article titled “African Literature in the Post-Global Age: Provocations on Field Commonsense.” Taking up the concept of the “post-global” advanced in Olaniyan’s article, this essay argues for the continued relevance of the concept of postcoloniality as it emerged in literary and cultural criticism in the 1990s
Postcolonial Reverberations
George's essay responds to Siba Grovogui's book Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy. It discusses some implications deriving from Grovogui's critique of international relations discourse from the vantage point of postcolonial literary and cultural criticism. It also explores theoretical directions that the book opens up, specifically as these may enrich interdisciplinary conversations in African studies. Of particular concern is the possibility of mo…
Relocating Agency
Encyclopedia of the Novel
The Narrative of Conversion in Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
Achebe’s Arrow of God Olakunle George (bio) Wherever Something stands, Something Else will stand beside it. Nothing is absolute. I am the truth, the way, and the life would be called blasphemous or simply absurd, for is it not well known that a man may worship Ogwugwu to perfection and yet be killed by Udo? —Chinua Achebe, Morning Yet On Creation Day O.so. mgbada bu nugwu The speed of the deer Is seen on the hill —Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God It i…
"The Narrative of Conversion in Chinua Achebe's "Arrow of God
Research Article| January 01 2005 The Narrative of Conversion in Chinua Achebe's "Arrow of God" Olakunle George Olakunle George Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2005) 42 (4): 344–362. https://doi.org/10.2307/40247508 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Olakunle George; The Narrative of Conversion in Chinua Achebe's "Arrow of God". Comparative Literature…
Text and matter
Subject to Colonialism
Book Review| August 01 2003 Subject to Colonialism: African Self-fashioning and the Colonial Library Gaurav Desai Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 197. Olakunle George Olakunle George Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 356–358. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-23-1-2-356 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail…
Cultural Criticism in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman
ACADEMIC COMMENTARY ON THE NIGERIAN DRAMATIST and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka reveals a level of consensus with regard to the personal mythology he has developed for his artistic purposes. Returning to his native Yoruba cosmology and the rituals that derive from it, Soyinka elicits from ritual a drama of archetypes, developing in the process a vision of history, society, and tragic drama. A range of critical work has shown this vision to be based…
Modernity and the Promise of Reading
No single issue, perhaps, generates as much debate in contemporary cultural criticism as that of modernity. In the sense in which I want to use it here, modernity denotes both a mode of seeing and a social organization: a mode of seeing insofar as the modern consciousness turns on a scientific outlook as against the mythical; and a social organization insofar as modern society rests on a market economy that progressively devolves into internation…
Returning to Jeyifo's The Yoruba Popular Travelling Theatre of Nigeria
The essay discusses Biodun Jeyifo's first book, The Yoruba Popular Travelling Theatre of Nigeria, published in 1984. The analysis demonstrates the continuing importance of the book for “African Humanities” and cultural studies scholarship at the present time
The Narrative of Conversion in Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
Achebe’s Arrow of God Olakunle George (bio) Wherever Something stands, Something Else will stand beside it. Nothing is absolute. I am the truth, the way, and the life would be called blasphemous or simply absurd, for is it not well known that a man may worship Ogwugwu to perfection and yet be killed by Udo? —Chinua Achebe, Morning Yet On Creation Day O.so. mgbada bu nugwu The speed of the deer Is seen on the hill —Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God It i…
Cultural Criticism in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman
ACADEMIC COMMENTARY ON THE NIGERIAN DRAMATIST and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka reveals a level of consensus with regard to the personal mythology he has developed for his artistic purposes. Returning to his native Yoruba cosmology and the rituals that derive from it, Soyinka elicits from ritual a drama of archetypes, developing in the process a vision of history, society, and tragic drama. A range of critical work has shown this vision to be based…
Modernity and the Promise of Reading
No single issue, perhaps, generates as much debate in contemporary cultural criticism as that of modernity. In the sense in which I want to use it here, modernity denotes both a mode of seeing and a social organization: a mode of seeing insofar as the modern consciousness turns on a scientific outlook as against the mythical; and a social organization insofar as modern society rests on a market economy that progressively devolves into internation…
Cultural Criticism in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman
ACADEMIC COMMENTARY ON THE NIGERIAN DRAMATIST and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka reveals a level of consensus with regard to the personal mythology he has developed for his artistic purposes. Returning to his native Yoruba cosmology and the rituals that derive from it, Soyinka elicits from ritual a drama of archetypes, developing in the process a vision of history, society, and tragic drama. A range of critical work has shown this vision to be based…
Subject to Colonialism
Book Review| August 01 2003 Subject to Colonialism: African Self-fashioning and the Colonial Library Gaurav Desai Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 197. Olakunle George Olakunle George Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 356–358. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-23-1-2-356 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail…
Text and matter
The Narrative of Conversion in Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
Achebe’s Arrow of God Olakunle George (bio) Wherever Something stands, Something Else will stand beside it. Nothing is absolute. I am the truth, the way, and the life would be called blasphemous or simply absurd, for is it not well known that a man may worship Ogwugwu to perfection and yet be killed by Udo? —Chinua Achebe, Morning Yet On Creation Day O.so. mgbada bu nugwu The speed of the deer Is seen on the hill —Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God It i…
"The Narrative of Conversion in Chinua Achebe's "Arrow of God
Research Article| January 01 2005 The Narrative of Conversion in Chinua Achebe's "Arrow of God" Olakunle George Olakunle George Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2005) 42 (4): 344–362. https://doi.org/10.2307/40247508 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Olakunle George; The Narrative of Conversion in Chinua Achebe's "Arrow of God". Comparative Literature…
Encyclopedia of the Novel
Relocating Agency
Postcolonial Reverberations
George's essay responds to Siba Grovogui's book Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy. It discusses some implications deriving from Grovogui's critique of international relations discourse from the vantage point of postcolonial literary and cultural criticism. It also explores theoretical directions that the book opens up, specifically as these may enrich interdisciplinary conversations in African studies. Of particular concern is the possibility of mo…
Re-Narrating the Post-Global
This essay is a brief response to Tejumola Olaniyan’s article titled “African Literature in the Post-Global Age: Provocations on Field Commonsense.” Taking up the concept of the “post-global” advanced in Olaniyan’s article, this essay argues for the continued relevance of the concept of postcoloniality as it emerged in literary and cultural criticism in the 1990s
Returning to Jeyifo's The Yoruba Popular Travelling Theatre of Nigeria
The essay discusses Biodun Jeyifo's first book, The Yoruba Popular Travelling Theatre of Nigeria, published in 1984. The analysis demonstrates the continuing importance of the book for “African Humanities” and cultural studies scholarship at the present time
Philip Quaque's Letters to London, 1765-1811/Arts of Being Yorùbá
A Companion to African Literatures
Companion to African Literatures
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