Isidore Okpewho
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 98087 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Isidore Okpewho |
| PRENOMES | Isidore |
| SOBRENOME | Okpewho |
| ASSINATURA | OKPEWHO I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Binghamton University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1972 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Storytelling in the African World
Home, Exile, and the Space In Between
This paper is a statement on the function of African literary criticism at the present time, in that it argues a new ethic of contemporary discourse on African literature that sets its lights on the sad state of affairs on the continent. There are no real gains for anyone when scholars are driven from their countries and their cherished pursuits by unpleasant social and political conditions created by power-hungry politicians. Whether we are enga…
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe is Africa’s most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global literary canon. Translated into close to sixty languages, Things Fall Apart is the novel that inaugurated the long and continuing tradition of postcolonial inquiry into the problematic relations between the West and the countries of the Third World that were once European colonies. This collection explores…
Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart
Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global literary canon. The essays collected in this casebook explore the work's artistic, multicultural, and global significance from a variety of critical perspectives
Oral Tradition
One of the challenges that narrators face is the critical reception of their accounts by the audience. While the narrator is inevitably subject to the imaginative and emotive pressures of the narrative material, the audience tends to take a more rational view of the artistic choices the narrator makes in his effort to construct a convincing account. The "aesthetic discrepancy" that seems to exist between narrator and audience leads some listeners…
The Art of The Ozidi Saga
Walcott, Homer, and the ?Black Atlantic
Research in African Literatures - Volume 33, Number 1, Spring 2002
The African Diaspora
Introduction by Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, and Ali Mazrui The Diaspora: Orientations and Determinations Michael J. C. Echeruo, An African Diaspora: The Ontological Project Maureen Warner-Lewis, Cultural Reconfigurations in the African Caribbean Elliott P. Skinner, The Restoration of African Identity for a New Millenium Addressing the Constraints Joseph E. Inikori, Slaves or Serfs?: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Serfdom in Europe a…
The African Diaspora
How black identities were forged in New World cultures.
Once Upon a Kingdom
1. A Kingdom and Its Discontents Historical and cultural relations Mythological relations History and the folk imagination 2. The Hunter Who Became an Oba: Heroism and Social History Heroism among the western Igbo OjiuduOs story Hunter, hero, and society Historical claims 3. Male Manque: Divinity, Authority, and the Individual OEhiO and the divine king OkoojiiOs story OChiO and the king in every man The Oba in the story 4. The Old Woman on the Ou…
Soyinka, Euripides, and the Anxiety of Empire
The old Aristotelian derivation of the word tragedy as a goat-song was given a graphic endorsement, at the dawn of the postcolonial African dramatic history, by the Nigerian poet-playwright John Pepper Clark. Newly graduated from University College, Ibadan—a colonial institution, where the old European classics were taken quite as seriously as in their
Once upon a Kingdom
Prodigal's Progress
Journal Article Prodigal's Progress: Jay Wright's Focal Center Get access Isidore Okpewho Isidore Okpewho State University of New York at Binghamton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 23, Issue 3, September 1998, Pages 187–209, https://doi.org/10.2307/467684 Published: 01 September 1998
African Oral Literature
African Oral Literature
African oral literature
From a Goat Path in Africa
Myth in Africa
Preface 1. Africa and the oral narrative theory: a critical survey 2. What is myth? 3. Mythmaking in Africa 4. Myth and social reality: the poetic imperative 5. Myth and contemporary African literature 6. Myth, mind and culture: a review of prejudices 7. Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
The Study of African Oral Literature
The Heritage of African Poetry
The Epic in Africa
Cheikh Anta Diop
I. Okpewho - Cheikh Anta Diop : en quête d'une philosophie de la culture africaine. Appréciation critique de l'œuvre du penseur sénégalais par un intellectuel africain d'expression anglaise. Bien que Diop se soit distancié formellement de la négritude senghorienne, I. Okpewho considère qu'il en a subi l'influence et le critique pour un certain romantisme qui en résulterait. Il n'en reconnaît pas moins l'intérêt, ne fût-ce que par la provocation i…
The Epic in Africa
Poetry and Pattern
tenet-is Levi-Strauss' claim that myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.' It will be difficult to go along with LeviStrauss in giving so little credit to the storyteller's intentions, but any criticism of Levi-Strauss' method must begin by acknowledging the degree of disjunction discernible in many an oral narrative. For instance, a careful look at some of the didactic codas with which many of them end will reveal how…
Dialook
No abstract
African Oral Literature
The African Diaspora
Introduction by Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, and Ali Mazrui The Diaspora: Orientations and Determinations Michael J. C. Echeruo, An African Diaspora: The Ontological Project Maureen Warner-Lewis, Cultural Reconfigurations in the African Caribbean Elliott P. Skinner, The Restoration of African Identity for a New Millenium Addressing the Constraints Joseph E. Inikori, Slaves or Serfs?: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Serfdom in Europe a…
The Epic in Africa
Oral Tradition
One of the challenges that narrators face is the critical reception of their accounts by the audience. While the narrator is inevitably subject to the imaginative and emotive pressures of the narrative material, the audience tends to take a more rational view of the artistic choices the narrator makes in his effort to construct a convincing account. The "aesthetic discrepancy" that seems to exist between narrator and audience leads some listeners…
Once Upon a Kingdom
1. A Kingdom and Its Discontents Historical and cultural relations Mythological relations History and the folk imagination 2. The Hunter Who Became an Oba: Heroism and Social History Heroism among the western Igbo OjiuduOs story Hunter, hero, and society Historical claims 3. Male Manque: Divinity, Authority, and the Individual OEhiO and the divine king OkoojiiOs story OChiO and the king in every man The Oba in the story 4. The Old Woman on the Ou…
Home, Exile, and the Space In Between
This paper is a statement on the function of African literary criticism at the present time, in that it argues a new ethic of contemporary discourse on African literature that sets its lights on the sad state of affairs on the continent. There are no real gains for anyone when scholars are driven from their countries and their cherished pursuits by unpleasant social and political conditions created by power-hungry politicians. Whether we are enga…
Soyinka, Euripides, and the Anxiety of Empire
The old Aristotelian derivation of the word tragedy as a goat-song was given a graphic endorsement, at the dawn of the postcolonial African dramatic history, by the Nigerian poet-playwright John Pepper Clark. Newly graduated from University College, Ibadan—a colonial institution, where the old European classics were taken quite as seriously as in their
The Art of The Ozidi Saga
African Oral Literature
The Study of African Oral Literature
The Last Duty
The Last Duty by Isidore Okpewho is a novel of Nigerian conflict though thinly disguised under names of mythical combatants, Simbia and Zonda. It is an intensely felt story of war, yet in one sense not a war novel. There is little fighting described. The author concerns himself with a village in Federally occupied Simbia and focuses upon greed and jealousies given new life by tensions of civil war. The central characters are Aku, wife of a man ja…
The Victims
Dialook
No abstract
The Last Duty
The Last Duty by Isidore Okpewho is a novel of Nigerian conflict though thinly disguised under names of mythical combatants, Simbia and Zonda. It is an intensely felt story of war, yet in one sense not a war novel. There is little fighting described. The author concerns himself with a village in Federally occupied Simbia and focuses upon greed and jealousies given new life by tensions of civil war. The central characters are Aku, wife of a man ja…
Poetry and Pattern
tenet-is Levi-Strauss' claim that myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.' It will be difficult to go along with LeviStrauss in giving so little credit to the storyteller's intentions, but any criticism of Levi-Strauss' method must begin by acknowledging the degree of disjunction discernible in many an oral narrative. For instance, a careful look at some of the didactic codas with which many of them end will reveal how…
The Epic in Africa
Cheikh Anta Diop
I. Okpewho - Cheikh Anta Diop : en quête d'une philosophie de la culture africaine. Appréciation critique de l'œuvre du penseur sénégalais par un intellectuel africain d'expression anglaise. Bien que Diop se soit distancié formellement de la négritude senghorienne, I. Okpewho considère qu'il en a subi l'influence et le critique pour un certain romantisme qui en résulterait. Il n'en reconnaît pas moins l'intérêt, ne fût-ce que par la provocation i…
The Epic in Africa
The Study of African Oral Literature
The Heritage of African Poetry
Myth in Africa
Preface 1. Africa and the oral narrative theory: a critical survey 2. What is myth? 3. Mythmaking in Africa 4. Myth and social reality: the poetic imperative 5. Myth and contemporary African literature 6. Myth, mind and culture: a review of prejudices 7. Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
From a Goat Path in Africa
African oral literature
African Oral Literature
African Oral Literature
Prodigal's Progress
Journal Article Prodigal's Progress: Jay Wright's Focal Center Get access Isidore Okpewho Isidore Okpewho State University of New York at Binghamton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 23, Issue 3, September 1998, Pages 187–209, https://doi.org/10.2307/467684 Published: 01 September 1998
Soyinka, Euripides, and the Anxiety of Empire
The old Aristotelian derivation of the word tragedy as a goat-song was given a graphic endorsement, at the dawn of the postcolonial African dramatic history, by the Nigerian poet-playwright John Pepper Clark. Newly graduated from University College, Ibadan—a colonial institution, where the old European classics were taken quite as seriously as in their
Once upon a Kingdom
Once Upon a Kingdom
1. A Kingdom and Its Discontents Historical and cultural relations Mythological relations History and the folk imagination 2. The Hunter Who Became an Oba: Heroism and Social History Heroism among the western Igbo OjiuduOs story Hunter, hero, and society Historical claims 3. Male Manque: Divinity, Authority, and the Individual OEhiO and the divine king OkoojiiOs story OChiO and the king in every man The Oba in the story 4. The Old Woman on the Ou…
The African Diaspora
How black identities were forged in New World cultures.
Walcott, Homer, and the ?Black Atlantic
Research in African Literatures - Volume 33, Number 1, Spring 2002
The African Diaspora
Introduction by Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, and Ali Mazrui The Diaspora: Orientations and Determinations Michael J. C. Echeruo, An African Diaspora: The Ontological Project Maureen Warner-Lewis, Cultural Reconfigurations in the African Caribbean Elliott P. Skinner, The Restoration of African Identity for a New Millenium Addressing the Constraints Joseph E. Inikori, Slaves or Serfs?: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Serfdom in Europe a…
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe is Africa’s most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global literary canon. Translated into close to sixty languages, Things Fall Apart is the novel that inaugurated the long and continuing tradition of postcolonial inquiry into the problematic relations between the West and the countries of the Third World that were once European colonies. This collection explores…
Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart
Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global literary canon. The essays collected in this casebook explore the work's artistic, multicultural, and global significance from a variety of critical perspectives
Oral Tradition
One of the challenges that narrators face is the critical reception of their accounts by the audience. While the narrator is inevitably subject to the imaginative and emotive pressures of the narrative material, the audience tends to take a more rational view of the artistic choices the narrator makes in his effort to construct a convincing account. The "aesthetic discrepancy" that seems to exist between narrator and audience leads some listeners…
The Art of The Ozidi Saga
History (16 obras) · Art (15 obras) · Literature (12 obras) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (11 obras) · Philosophy (10 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · History (6 obras) · Aesthetics (5 obras) · African history and culture studies (5 obras)