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1. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 21, Issue 2 (September 2021)pp. 102–120PDF of Traumatic Testimonies and the Redemption of Racial Memory in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon

   Traumatic Testimonies and the Redemption of Racial Memory in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon

   Thomas-Michael Emeka Chukwumezie and Okechukwu Emmanuel Agu

   strong nexus between memory and Caribbean literature is linked to the testimony of their past collective experiences. A close reading of Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon … their descendants in the contemporaneity. Such experiential reverberation informs on the reality of racial memory; a broad term that captures an individual’s racial heritage. It can also be construed

2. Volume 22, Issue 2 (September 2022)pp. 1–24PDF of Colonial Othering, Fractured Identity, and the Ethics of Reconciliation, A Re-reading of Veronique Tadjo’s The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Hearts of Rwanda.

   Colonial Othering, Fractured Identity, and the Ethics of Reconciliation, A Re-reading of Veronique Tadjo’s The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Hearts of Rwanda.

   Anthonia-Greg Nwanekwu Chibuoke, Caroline Olubunmi Nwaka and Goodluck Chinenye Kadiri

   Heart of Rwanda through the interconnected concepts of colonial Othering, fractured identity, dehumanisation, memory, and reconciliation. It argues that Tadjo’s representation of the 1994 Rwandan genocide challenges explanations that … stable sense of self. The article argues that Tadjo does not represent memory merely as an act of preserving the past but as an ethical response to historical violence. Through

3. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 442–462PDF of Psychosomatic Expressions in Selected Poems of Maya Angelou and Kamau Brathwaite

   Psychosomatic Expressions in Selected Poems of Maya Angelou and Kamau Brathwaite

   Caroline Olubunmi Nwaka and Anthonia-Greg Nwanekwu Chibuoke

   womanhood, while studies of Kamau Brathwaite have largely focused on Caribbean history, African cultural memory, colonialism, diaspora, nation language, rhythm, and formal experimentation. However, the relationship between psychological experience … poems by Angelou and Brathwaite provide important means through which psychological conflict, traumatic experience, memory, resilience, and identity are articulated. The study is theoretically grounded in trauma and embodiment studies

4. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 188–210PDF of Trauma, Memory, And Rhetorical Construction In The War Declaration Speeches of Putin, Zelenskyy, Netanyahu, Abbas, And Haniyeh: A Caruthian Reading

   Trauma, Memory, And Rhetorical Construction In The War Declaration Speeches of Putin, Zelenskyy, Netanyahu, Abbas, And Haniyeh: A Caruthian Reading

   Onesimus Azunwanna and Comfort Adeleke-Adeniji

   extensive media coverage and strategic political communication. Yet scholarly attention focuses on collective memory and its role in shaping national identities, with limited attention to trauma as a rhetorical strategy … central position in contemporary war rhetoric, serving as a powerful mechanism for negotiating identity, memory, power, and legitimacy within conflict situations

5. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 107–128PDF of The Novel as a Cultural Artefact in Africa

   The Novel as a Cultural Artefact in Africa

   Isaac Ojo Atere and Chukwunomsue Juliana Nwazodoni

   structures and worldviews of African communities. Drawing on literature as a repository of cultural memory, the study examines Achebe’s representation of Igbo communal life, oral traditions, religious beliefs, governance … Frantz Fanon’s theory of national culture and Jan Assmann’s theory of cultural memory. Using qualitative textual analysis, the study demonstrates that these representations are neither static nor merely

6. 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

   colonial dependency. However, the novels also present indigenous languages, oral traditions, cultural memory and hybrid speech as forms of epistemic resistance that restore communal and sustainable relationships with the land

7. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 24, Issue 2 (September 2024)pp. 1–21PDF of “Here Lies…”: Spatial Deixis, Embodied Finitude, and the Pragmatics of Existential Reflection in Nigerian Epitaphs

   “Here Lies…”: Spatial Deixis, Embodied Finitude, and the Pragmatics of Existential Reflection in Nigerian Epitaphs

   T. O. Adesanmi

   deixis operates simultaneously as a philosophical claim and a technology of reflection in African memorial discourse

8. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 24, Issue 2 (September 2024)pp. 203–223PDF of Rhythmic Form and the Production of Meaning in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Poetry

   Rhythmic Form and the Production of Meaning in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Poetry

   Caroline Olubunmi Nwaka and Anthonia-Greg Nwanekwu Chibuoke

   focuses on how patterns of rhythmic regularity and deviation shape voice, emphasis, emotional tension, memory, identity, and representations of social experience. The analysis demonstrates that Brooks frequently adapts the rhythms

9. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 23, Issue 1 (September 2023)pp. 38–56PDF of Trauma and Identity Crises in Chika Unigwe’s The Middle Daughter

   Trauma and Identity Crises in Chika Unigwe’s The Middle Daughter

   Deborah Nwakuba, Somtochukwu Ogbuehi and Caroline Nwaka

   theoretical framework. Trauma theory further guides the analysis of how traumatic experiences disrupt memory, selfhood, and narrative coherence. The study shows that The Middle Daughter portrays trauma as both personal

10. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 21, Issue 2 (September 2021)pp. 142–168PDF of Impoliteness in Online Reactions to Media Reports of the 2019 Nigerian Presidential Election

    Impoliteness in Online Reactions to Media Reports of the 2019 Nigerian Presidential Election

    Chidi Nwankwo, Kenneth Ahaiwe and Chuka Ononye

    friction or interpersonal incivility. Rather, it functions as a strategic vehicle for weaponised historical memory, ethno-regional identity construction, institutional delegitimisation, and the socio-cognitive pathologisation of political dissent. Ultimately