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...
Main Author: | Obododimma Oha |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
UTS ePRESS
2008-12-01
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Series: | PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/884 |
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