Poetry as Dialogue: A reading of recent Anglophone Nigerian poetry

Poetry as Dialogue: A reading of recent Anglophone Nigerian poetry

Recent Nigerian poetry in English seems to concern itself with the most pressing socio-political condition in Nigeria, especially the prolonged military despotism in the past decades whose consequences are still felt in the society. One of the strategies the poets use to dramatise and historicise th...

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Hoofdauteur: Egya, Sule Emmanuel
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Taal:Portugais
Gepubliceerd in: e-cadernos CES 2013
Onderwerpen:
dialogic
intersubjectivity
Nigerian poetry
social commitment
despotism
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:eces_697 https://doi.org/10.4000/eces.697 urn:doi:10.4000/eces.697 pt https://journals.openedition.org/eces/697 2013-12-06T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/ffiz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Poetry as Dialogue: A reading of recent Anglophone Nigerian poetry e-cadernos CES Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1647-0737 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/eces Egya, Sule Emmanuel dialogic intersubjectivity Nigerian poetry social commitment despotism Recent Nigerian poetry in English seems to concern itself with the most pressing socio-political condition in Nigeria, especially the prolonged military despotism in the past decades whose consequences are still felt in the society. One of the strategies the poets use to dramatise and historicise the situation is the dialogic approach. Their poetry reveals a dialogue between the poet and the people, and between the poet and the despot. The poem that emerges from this act of dialoguing, it will be seen, is conditioned by how the poet perceives the personae with whom he dialogues, i.e. the dialogue between the poet and the people and the dialogue between the poet and the despot differ. The poem is also polyphonic, able to depict to a greater degree the social contradiction in an oppressed society. Using selected poems of younger Nigerian poets, I intend to show the process – and the possible effects – of this dialogisation in recent Nigerian poetry.
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topic dialogic
intersubjectivity
Nigerian poetry
social commitment
despotism
spellingShingle dialogic
intersubjectivity
Nigerian poetry
social commitment
despotism
Egya, Sule Emmanuel
Poetry as Dialogue: A reading of recent Anglophone Nigerian poetry
description Recent Nigerian poetry in English seems to concern itself with the most pressing socio-political condition in Nigeria, especially the prolonged military despotism in the past decades whose consequences are still felt in the society. One of the strategies the poets use to dramatise and historicise the situation is the dialogic approach. Their poetry reveals a dialogue between the poet and the people, and between the poet and the despot. The poem that emerges from this act of dialoguing, it will be seen, is conditioned by how the poet perceives the personae with whom he dialogues, i.e. the dialogue between the poet and the people and the dialogue between the poet and the despot differ. The poem is also polyphonic, able to depict to a greater degree the social contradiction in an oppressed society. Using selected poems of younger Nigerian poets, I intend to show the process – and the possible effects – of this dialogisation in recent Nigerian poetry.
author Egya, Sule Emmanuel
author_facet Egya, Sule Emmanuel
author_sort Egya, Sule Emmanuel
title Poetry as Dialogue: A reading of recent Anglophone Nigerian poetry
title_short Poetry as Dialogue: A reading of recent Anglophone Nigerian poetry
title_full Poetry as Dialogue: A reading of recent Anglophone Nigerian poetry
title_fullStr Poetry as Dialogue: A reading of recent Anglophone Nigerian poetry
title_full_unstemmed Poetry as Dialogue: A reading of recent Anglophone Nigerian poetry
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