Corruption in Contemporary Nigerian Poetry: A New Historicist Perspective

IF 0.2 4区文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI:10.1080/02564718.2021.1997164

Onyebuchi Nwosu, Anike Adeshina

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Summary Discussions on corruption in Nigeria are dominated by economists and social scientists with their scholastic discourse on the subject growing by the day that one wonders whether Nigerian creative writers, especially contemporary poets are not perturbed by the rising wave of corruption in the country. This article attempts to investigate the contributions of some Nigerian poets like Niyi Osundare, Odia Ofeimun, Idris Amali, Joe Ushie, Amanze Akpuda, Musa Idris Okpanachi, Darlington Ogbonnaya and Eddie Onuzuruike in the fight against corruption in Nigeria. Hence a new historicist approach was adopted to discuss their imaginative portrayal of corruption and its impact on the war against graft. Their artistic perspectives of corruption were identified in order to better understand the various forms of corruption as well as the historical dimensions and their suggestive mitigating effects. From the findings, it is evident that Nigerian poets have raised strong voices against corruptive tendencies by exposing the various categories of corruption in Nigeria and their destructive and debilitating effects.

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当代尼日利亚诗歌中的腐败:一个新的历史主义视角

关于尼日利亚腐败的讨论主要由经济学家和社会科学家主导，他们对这一主题的学术讨论日益增多，人们不禁怀疑尼日利亚的创意作家，尤其是当代诗人，是否对该国日益高涨的腐败浪潮感到不安。本文试图探讨奈及利亚诗人Niyi Osundare、Odia Ofeimun、Idris Amali、Joe Ushie、Amanze Akpuda、Musa Idris Okpanachi、Darlington Ogbonnaya和Eddie Onuzuruike在奈及利亚反贪斗争中的贡献。因此，采用了一种新的历史主义方法来讨论他们对腐败的想象性描绘及其对反腐败战争的影响。他们对腐败的艺术视角被识别出来，以便更好地理解腐败的各种形式、历史维度及其暗示性的缓解效果。从调查结果可以看出，奈及利亚诗人透过揭露奈及利亚各种类型的贪腐，及其破坏性和削弱的影响，强烈反对贪腐倾向。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Literary Studies publishes and globally disseminates original and cutting-edge research informed by Literary and Cultural Theory. The Journal is an independent quarterly publication owned and published by the South African Literary Society in partnership with Unisa Press and Taylor & Francis. It is housed and produced in the division Theory of Literature at the University of South Africa and is accredited and subsidised by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training. The aim of the journal is to publish articles and full-length review essays informed by Literary Theory in the General Literary Theory subject area and mostly covering Formalism, New Criticism, Semiotics, Structuralism, Marxism, Poststructuralism, Psychoanalysis, Gender studies, New Historicism, Ecocriticism, Animal Studies, Reception Theory, Comparative Literature, Narrative Theory, Drama Theory, Poetry Theory, and Biography and Autobiography.