In the name of the sign
The nsibidi script as the language and literature of the crossroads
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4473682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maik Nwosu (University of Minnesota, Duluth, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 2010 |
| Issue | 182 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Semiotica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/semi.2010.061 |
| OpenAlex | W2007044903 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
The study of nsibidi, one of Africa's native writing systems, has mainly taken two routes — the taxonomic, which is concerned with the classification of nsibidi signs, and the genealogical, which attempts to resolve the question of where and how nsibidi originated. This essay undertakes a semiotic and literary analysis of nsibidi as an influential language of the crossroads. In modern Nigerian literature, for instance, the poetics of “nsibidi” may be said to include a weighty concern with cosmologies or trajectories of origin and the representation or renewal of an existential drama rooted in a myth of the crossroads
Art · Drama · Epistemology · Existentialism · Linguistics · Literature · Mythology · Poetics · Poetry · Representation (politics) · Semiotics · Sign (mathematics) · Sign system · Sociology · History · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |