Nnimmo Bassey’s Aesthetic Imagination and Social Meaning in We Thought It Was Oil but It Was Blood

This paper explores Nnimmo Bassey’s poetry collection: We Thought it Was Oil but It Was Blood. It interrogates the aesthetic imagination and language use in the construction of the poem as a text, and the social meaning wrapped in such imagination and language use. This paper draws insight from post...

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Main Author: Okwudiri Anasiudu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Prodi Sastra Inggris Fakultas Sastra Universitas Sanata Dharma 2022-03-01
Series:Journal of Language and Literature
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Online Access:https://e-journal.usd.ac.id/index.php/JOLL/article/view/3783