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CULTURE AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN IN BUCHI EMECHETA’S THE JOYS OF MOTHERHOOD AND CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS

ABSTRACTOver the years, the major challenge facing the female folk is discrimination and unfair treatment in the society. This work discusses cultural practices that discriminate against women. This research work is a critical analysis of two African novels: Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of mothe...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 9367 words | 📚 5 chapters

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EMERGENT TRADITION AND THE AFRICAN POETRY, A CASE STUDY OF TANURE OJAIDE’S THE “FATE OF VULTURES” AND “ENDLESS SONG”

ABSTRACTThis work looks into the themes and central ideas of emergent tradition and the African poetry.  It aims at examining the message of Ojaide's as on emergent writer and his opinion about political themes and cultural themes in relation to literary tradition in African poetry.  Us...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 10614 words | 📚 5 chapters

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FACTS AND FICTION IN AKACHI ADIMORA – EZEIGBO’S CHILDREN OF THE EAGLE AND THE LAST OF THE STRONG ONES

ABSTRACTThis research work addressed itself to the way people tend to see fictional works. People see fictional works as being fictitious, but they are over laid with fact. This long essay, using Akachi Adimora. Ezeigbo's works as guide, demonstrated the impact of the intermeddling of fact with f...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 11382 words | 📚 5 chapters

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FEMINISM USING BUCHI EMECHETA’S ‘THE JOYS OF MOTHERHOOD’ AND ZAYNAB ALIKALI’S ‘THE STILL BORN’

CHAPTER ONEGENERAL INTRODUCTION1.0     IntroductionThis chapter will look into the background and the general introduction of feminism using Buchi Emecheta and Zaynab Akali's 'The Joys of Motherhood and 'The Stillborn' respectively. Also, it shall discuss purpose and scope of ...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 8937 words | 📚 5 chapters

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FEMINIST AESTHETIC IN ZAYNAB ALKALI’S THE STILLBORN AND THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN

AbstractThe study has examined the extent of the marginalization of the African woman in a sexist society which relegates womanhood to gender roles. It has discovered, for instance that the persistent inequality between men and women in the Nigeria society which Alkali works portray, has contribu...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 6480 words | 📚 5 chapters

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FEMINIST AESTHETICS IN OLA ROTIMI’S OUR HUSBAND HAS GONE MAD AGAIN AND FEMI OSOFISAN’S MOROUNTODUN

ABSTRACTFeminism as a concept gained approval the help of some male feminist writers who write for the sake of women liberation but this concept has its limitations. Feminist aesthetics thereby came into full realization in the work of some female writers who actually wants other women's value.Th...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 12434 words | 📚 5 chapters

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FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES IN AMA ATA AIDOO’S CHANGES AND IFEOMA OKOYE’S BEHIND THE CLOUDS

AbstractThere are different perspectives to gender issues, but this work has limited its review to the womanist perspective in Aidoo's CHANGES and Okoye's BEHIND THE CLOUDS.  In establishing the perspective, a study of both writers looking critically into their literary a...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 11818 words | 📚 5 chapters

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FOLKLORE AND THE QUEST FOR RE-INVENTION A STUDY OF WOLE SOYINKA’S DEATH AND THE KING’S HORSEMAN AND HOPE EGHAGHA’S DEATH NOT A REDEEMER

ABSTRACTFolklore as an aspect of the African oral tradition has been traced to traditional African society handed down by customs, beliefs and an aspect of culture handed down by our for forefathers through orature.  Conflict that arises over death and the quest for re-invention in the plays...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 12101 words | 📚 5 chapters

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GENDER DISCOURSE IN THE NIGERIAN SOCIETY (A CASE STUDY OF THE FEMALE GENDER IN TESS ONWUEMES GO TELL IT TO WOMEN)

ABSTRACTGenderism, an apt neologism for gender equilibrium in literary discourse and creativity is a sequel to feminism following the emergence of gender studies in the last quarter of the twentieth century.Since 1975 - declared by the United Nations as the international women's year, there has b...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 9727 words | 📚 5 chapters

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GENDER IDEOLOGY AND SOCIAL CRISES IN IFEOMA OKOYE’S BEHIND THE CLOUDS AND MEN WITHOUT EARS

ABSTRACTAcademic exploration into gender issues in literature and culture has taken a new dimension. The trends in writings and discourses have been to observe the female sex at domestic background. The roles played by the women as mothers, sisters, custodian, home managers, family maintainers ar...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 6240 words | 📚 5 chapters

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POLITICS AND AESTHETICS IN SELECTED PLAYS OF WOLE SOYINKA

ABSTRACTThis study has been embarked upon to present the politics and aesthetics in selected plays of Wole Soyinka paying much attention to his The Beatification of Area Boy and Kongi's Harvest. The study has been able to extract and discuss the ways in which Wole Soyinka appl...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 8371 words | 📚 5 chapters

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POST–COLONIALISM AND LITERARY AESTHETICS (A STUDY OF SOYINKA’S DEATH AND THE KING’S HORSEMAN AND A DANCE OF THE FORESTS)

ASTRACTPost-colonialism and Literary aesthetics are integral aspect of literature which has contributed immensely to the development of African's culture by combating the residual effect of colonialism on African's culture and in turn reviving it. This work examines magical realism as a concept u...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 9393 words | 📚 5 chapters

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PRAGMATIC FEATURES OF NIGERIAN ENGLISH (A CASE STUDY OF SELECTED POEMS OF BAYO ADEBOWALE)

ABSTRACTThis essay focused on the pragmatic features of Nigeria English as used in literatures, using the selected poems of Bayo Adebowale as a case study, to see how these pragmatic features have helped in projecting Nigerian cultures and worldviews in Nigerian literary works. The pragmatic feat...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 6800 words | 📚 5 chapters

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SYMBOLS OF DECADENCE IN AYI KWEI ARMAH’S THE BEAUTIFUL ONES ARE NOT YET BORN

AbstractThis work introduces the major variable in this research topic as well as gives a brief background of the text adopted for critical analysis. The text selected for the study, therefore will focus on the concept of symbol and decadence as well as its relevance to the novel. This research e...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 12551 words | 📚 5 chapters

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SYNTACTIC AND LEXICO-SEMANTIC ANALYSES OF SELECTED SMS TEXT MESSAGES

ABSTRACTWords form the basis for a Linguistic analysis at any level of language study. The aim of this essay was to identify the various Lexical and Syntactic elements that make up personal text messages among the students of the University of Ilorin. Lexical features, Lexical relations, Word-for...

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📄 65 pages | 🧠 8232 words | 📚 5 chapters

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