Deixis, Historical Memory and the Contradictions of Postcolonial Freedom in Oloruntoba-Oju’s Losses
This paper studies Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju’s Losses (Poems) (1998). It situates the collection within the tradition of works written against the repressive military regime in Nigeria, and in Africa in general, pointing out the centrality of historical memory as used in the creation of a poetics of lam...
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| Language: | English |
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Nordic Africa Research Network
2021-09-01
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| Series: | Nordic Journal of African Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/798 |