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1. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 22, Issue 1 (September 2022)pp. 1–15PDF of Ambiguity and the Modernist Question: Characterising Estrangement in Selected African Novels

   Ambiguity and the Modernist Question: Characterising Estrangement in Selected African Novels

   Chinasa Abonyi

   necessarily involve migration as local dwellers have their immediate environment defamiliarized in postcolonial regions. From Freud’s psychoanalytic perspective, this essay examines the uncanny, which comes with the detachment … uncanny the characters are established as modernist question foregrounded in contradiction and the postcolonial modernism

2. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 269–289PDF of Decolonial Ecology, Linguistic Hegemony and Indigenous Environmental Epistemologies in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness

   Decolonial Ecology, Linguistic Hegemony and Indigenous Environmental Epistemologies in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness

   Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze, Thomas-Michael Emeka Chukwumezie, Kenneth Ahaiwe C., Chinasa Abonyi and Henrietta Okafor

   This study investigates the relationship between linguistic hegemony and environmental consciousness in postcolonial Africa through Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness. Drawing

3. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 21, Issue 2 (September 2021)pp. 1–19PDF of Non-Human Agency and Ecological Resistance in Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King

   Non-Human Agency and Ecological Resistance in Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King

   Vivien Bello-Osagie

   object, from living relation to extractable resource. By bringing ecolinguistic analysis into dialogue with postcolonial literary studies, the study shows how grammar itself participates in meaning-making about human survival

4. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 21, Issue 2 (September 2021)PDF of Non-Human Agency and Ecological Resistance in Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King

   Non-Human Agency and Ecological Resistance in Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King

   Vivien Bello-Osagie

   object, from living relation to extractable resource. By bringing ecolinguistic analysis into dialogue with postcolonial literary studies, the study shows how grammar itself participates in meaning-making about human survival