How does Violence Mean? Understanding Nigerian Civil War Poetry
Violence is a potent intensifier of artistic creation, as some of the finest imaginative compositions across the world derive their subject from war. Most writers recreate the theme of war because it gives them ample opportunity to demonstrate that literature and society operate in a symbiotic relat...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Jezik: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Online pristup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sažetak: | Violence is a potent intensifier of artistic creation, as some of the finest imaginative compositions across the world derive their subject from war. Most writers recreate the theme of war because it gives them ample opportunity to demonstrate that literature and society operate in a symbiotic relationship. Invariably, war stories have the propensity to reinterpret history because writers create from excruciating experiences they are emotionally and physically involved in. Significantly, literature becomes a response to a definite historical and socio-political condition. The Nigerian Civil War, which ended in 1970, remains the most recreated historical phenomenon in Nigerian literature. This article, therefore, does not just re-examine war as a dominant theme in post-War Nigerian literature, but it also aims at rereading Nigerian Civil War poetry in order to appraise the idea of the nation fifty years after independence. It analyses Nigerian Civil War poetry as a creative tool for understanding the project of a new Nigeria against the backdrop of self-rule. |
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