Multiple Strokes
This poem playfully addresses the slippery nature of linguistic signification, employing humour and sarcasm in presenting a wide range of human experience. It ironical twists -- and "strokes" (read ambiguously as both a giving a punishment and erotic pleasuring) -- move from the naming of...
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| author | Obododimma Oha |
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| description | This poem playfully addresses the slippery nature of linguistic signification, employing humour and sarcasm in presenting a wide range of human experience. It ironical twists -- and "strokes" (read ambiguously as both a giving a punishment and erotic pleasuring) -- move from the naming of location through international discourse of capital to the crumbling relationships between nation states. It reading of the signs of language is tied to the unease and fracture in cultural and political experience. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2855eaf48432423faf1c71dc444e17982022-12-22T02:38:14ZengUTS ePRESSPORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies1449-24902008-12-0152Multiple StrokesObododimma OhaThis poem playfully addresses the slippery nature of linguistic signification, employing humour and sarcasm in presenting a wide range of human experience. It ironical twists -- and "strokes" (read ambiguously as both a giving a punishment and erotic pleasuring) -- move from the naming of location through international discourse of capital to the crumbling relationships between nation states. It reading of the signs of language is tied to the unease and fracture in cultural and political experience.http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/884Nation, Language, Words, Meaning, Culture |
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| topic | Nation, Language, Words, Meaning, Culture |
| url | http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/884 |
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