Corruption in Contemporary Nigerian Poetry

A New Historicist Perspective

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ID20156829
AutoresOnyebuchi Nwosu (0009-0006-0261-1288, Alex Ekueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Nigeria, autor correspondente), Anike Adeshina (Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria.)
Ano2021
Volume37
Fascículo4
Páginas14-33
Data de publicação2021-10-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387
EditoraUnisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA)
DOI10.1080/02564718.2021.1997164
OpenAlexW4200251940
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas12

Discussions on corruption in Nigeria are dominated by economists and social scientists with their scholastic discourse on the subject growing by the day that one wonders whether Nigerian creative writers, especially contemporary poets are not perturbed by the rising wave of corruption in the country. This article attempts to investigate the contributions of some Nigerian poets like Niyi Osundare, Odia Ofeimun, Idris Amali, Joe Ushie, Amanze Akpuda, Musa Idris Okpanachi, Darlington Ogbonnaya and Eddie Onuzuruike in the fight against corruption in Nigeria. Hence a new historicist approach was adopted to discuss their imaginative portrayal of corruption and its impact on the war against graft. Their artistic perspectives of corruption were identified in order to better understand the various forms of corruption as well as the historical dimensions and their suggestive mitigating effects. From the findings, it is evident that Nigerian poets have raised strong voices against corruptive tendencies by exposing the various categories of corruption in Nigeria and their destructive and debilitating effects

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