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1. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 22, Issue 1 (September 2022)pp. 33–47PDF of Beyond the Critical Consensus: Rethinking Masculinity in Amma Darko’s Faceless

   Beyond the Critical Consensus: Rethinking Masculinity in Amma Darko’s Faceless

   Chigbu, Andrew Chigbu and Onyeka J Uzuegbu

   their dignity. This article, however, questions this established opinion. It deploys care-centered masculinity and Afro-feminist theories to study the novel beyond surface-level judgments of male characters … Through these critical and analytical approaches, the article contends that Faceless does not reject masculinity but rather reinterprets it through three characters: Adade (the domestic figure), Sylv Po (the public

2. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 423–441PDF of No more rise and fall: Metaphorical representations of sex, masculinity and femininity in herbal sex enhancement drugs advertisement in South East Nigeria

   No more rise and fall: Metaphorical representations of sex, masculinity and femininity in herbal sex enhancement drugs advertisement in South East Nigeria

   Mathias Okey Chukwu and Favour Raphael Ntor

   meet rigid standards of sexual endurance and reinforcing a commercialised model of hegemonic masculinity. The study concludes that herbal sex-enhancement drug advertisements employ coordinated metaphorical and framing strategies that

3. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 24, Issue 1 (September 2024)pp. 102–115PDF of The Poetics of Ecobordering: Ecofeminism and Border Dynamics in Flora Nwapa’s Never Again and Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra

   The Poetics of Ecobordering: Ecofeminism and Border Dynamics in Flora Nwapa’s Never Again and Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra

   Mary J. N. Okolie and Anya Ude Egwu

   novels present women as agents, not only victims: their mobility, labor, and dissent challenge masculine militarism from within, even as hunger, class, and the state’s recruitment of women limit