Research Papers/Topics in Literature in English

Development and Industrialisation Miracles in Asia: Nigeria and Lessons in Abubakar Gimba's Letter to the Unborn Child and Oh! Uhud [Thyaunting Spirit]

Asia has been one of the most dynamic regions with renown rapid economic growth and development in recent times. In the past few decades, several developing economies such as in Asia have successfully transformed their economies and are acknowledged as newly industrialized economies through conscious technological researches and innovations. The new industrialisers such as China, South -Korea, Malaysia, Japan, India etal are now acknowledged as the key ‘Giants’ giants’ in the global eco...

Globalisation, Sex and Sexuality in Nigerian Literature: A Focus on Toni Kan's Ballad of Rage

ABSTRACT Globalisation is the trend of increasing interaction between individuals, people and nations with a focus on increasing trade, ideas and culture. In recent times, literature tend to aid in the transmission of ideas, meanings and values around the world in such a way as to extend and intensify social relations. This process is attained through the consumption of social cultures, which have been caused by migration, internet and popular culture media. This cultural circulation extends ...

Analysis of Societal Disposition to LGBTQ using She Called Me Woman by Azeenarh Mohammed

The issue of LGBTQ rights and acceptance is one of the most controversial and debated topics in the world today. LGBTQ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer, which are terms that describe people who have different sexual orientations or gender identities than the majority of society. LGBTQ people face various forms of discrimination, violence, and oppression in many countries and cultures, especially in Africa, where homosexuality is illegal in most nations and punishable ...

The Distracted Globe of Hamlet: Insane or Feigned?

This paper attempts to assess the veracity of Shakespearean protagonist Hamlet's mental condition. Ultimately, the author posits, through comprehensive research and textual analysis, that the prince is feigning psychosis. 

Nigerian Diaspora Literature: A Conceptual and Thematic Study of Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah

ABSTRACT The recent torrent of migrations of Nigerians to other parts of the world such as Europe, Asia among others is alarming. Recently, several migrants and those who have close insight into migrant experiences have been writing of migrants lives in diverse forms of literature. These writings have provided insight into Nigerian migration issues - racial discrimination, hair politics et al. The paper uses postcolonial theory in studying conceptual cum thematic concerns of Chimamanda Adich...

Sex and Sexuality in Contemporary Nigerian Literature: A Case Study of Toni Kan's Nights of The Creaking Bed and Ballad of Rage

ABSTRACT The newly experimented stylistic exploration in contemporary Nigerian literature is in the incorporation of sex and sexuality. Before now, writers stylized gestures with symbolised represented matters with sexual connotations. However, recently, prose is rapidly fading away from this established modest order. In Toni Kan’s Nights of the Creaking Bed and Ballad of Rage, it is observed that sexually-related taboos are reoccurring. Issues like love making, abortion, gay and lesbian lo...

Language and Meaning in J.P. Clark Abiku and Soyinka's Abiku: A Comparative Analysis

This paper discusses contrastive analysis of language and meaning in Abiku child in two prominent Nigerian poems: J.P Clark's Abiku and Wole Soyinka's Abiku. The paper provides a detailed background of the poems, analyzes the language and meaning of each, and compares and contrasts the writers' approach to the theme. The analysis focuses on the language and literary devices used in the poems, including repetition, imagery, allusion, and personification. The paper also explores the cultural an...

The Representation of Home and Identity in Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing

ABSTRACT This research explores the issues of home and identity in two postcolonial novels, Ghana Must Go and Homegoing. In the era of globalization, people are pushing for borderlessness, transculturalism and hybrid identities as against a pure national or cultural identity. Among such people are African third generation writers who are also second generation migrants. They themselves have had issues in trying to define their identities and, due to the many spaces and cultures they encounter...

Cross-dressing in Caryl Churchills Cloud Nine (1979) and Top Girls (1982)

During the 1960s and 1970s, the second wave of feminism took place in Britain. Back then, women did not just carry the fight for equality in marriage and work, but they also wanted to break free of the chains of gender stereotypes that the patriarchy drew about them. The second wave of feminism; also known as the ‘Women’s Liberation Movements’, did not focus on giving rights to women only but also to sex minorities (e.g. homosexuals, transsexuals. etc.). Caryl Churchill is a prominent E...

Management of Gray Literature in Academic Libraries In Nigeria

ABSTRACT This research investigated management and use of grey literature in academic libraries in Niger State. The purpose of it is to identify types of grey literature, examine methods of acquisition, processing, preservation and utilisation. In addition, to ascertain management challenges and strategies for improvement. Research questions were formulated based on seven points of the purposes. A descriptive survey research design was used for the study. One hundred and two (102) librarians ...

Nigerian Film Festival

Most scholarship on African screen media acknowledges out- right that there have been, and continue to be, many trends and traditions in filmmaking across the continent and in the African diasporas, making it impossible to distinguish any particular coherence to the category of African filmmaking. Many scholars have advanced this argument through analysis of distinct production infrastructures, films, genres, nationally located cinemas, particular filmmakers, and critical concepts such as tra...

Ahsan Abdullah khan research article (Psychological realism: An Analysis of main character Raskolnikov in the novel crime and punishment)

Abstract: This article aims to explore the Psychological aspects of the novel Crime and Punishment. It mainly focused on the character Raskolnikov in a novel that he lost his mental abilities after committed a crime. It demonstrates the comparison of his mental health before and after commit a crime. He makes his own psychological mind in order to defend himself and struggle for his survival. This paper tries to find the main reason of his wish or desire to commit suicide and death. This arti...

REPRESENTATION OF VIOLENCE ON WOMEN IN CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS

ABSTRACT   This study examines how Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus interrogates the problem of violence on women. The study shows how violence is represented through characters who due to violence condoned by male characters they are affected. It establishes how the novel portrays religion and patriarchy as two ideologies that men exploit to enforce violence on women and subject them to submission. In the portrait, family is represented as the focal point where violence is ...

Autobiographical Elements in Washington Irving's RIP Van Winkle

Abstract This essay examines Washington Irving’s short story “Rip Van Winkle” from an autobiographical perspective by focusing on the commonality and resemblance between the author and his fictional hero. It suggests that Rip and Irving have many similar traits which underline the deeply personal and subjective dimension of the tale. It begins by considering some of these traits such as idleness, generosity and kind-heartedness. It claims that both Rip and Irving are characterized by th...

Man with the Machine: Analyzing the Role of Autopoietic Machinic Agency in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me

The study will attempt to analyze Ian McEwan‘s novel Machines Like Me (2019) to explore issues related to the question of whether it ispossible to found a meaningful relationship between man and machine in a culture which is inching towards a Transhuman or Posthuman state while also focusing on the issue that how the very definition of ‗human‘ is bound to undergo a radical shift in an environment where machines not just mimic and flawlessly replicate their human counterparts in many res...


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