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Obiorah Ekwueme, Victor Onyedikachi Eze, Ikechukwu Erojikwe and John Uche Ngonadi
aesthetics, language and tragic structure, leaving the political character of the diviner-healer’s power largely unexamined. This study investigates how the play represents the conversion of sacred authority into … personal and political interest. It is anchored on John Turner’s Analysis of Power, which sets the Standard Theory, in which power derives from the control of valued resources
Benjamin Nwabuisi Abia, Anya Ude Egwu and Mary J. N. Okolie
writers have drawn on secret knowledge, occult practice and unseen forces to think about power, consciousness and social organisation. This article compares three Nigerian narratives: Ben Okri’s The Famished … myth, to shape their prose and to work through the related questions of power and ritual. The Famished Road has drawn a large body of criticism on its magical realism
Caroline Olubunmi Nwaka and Anthonia-Greg Nwanekwu Chibuoke
conflict, the relationship between the denial of female autonomy and the possessive exercise of power requires further comparative attention. Drawing on Feminist Literary Theory, the study employs qualitative textual analysis
Christian Onah and Emmanuel Jibb Adams
linguistic choices of both authors construct and communicate ideologies of gender and power. Rather than accepting the conventional assumption that both novels simply reproduce a feminist ideology of male domination … that position women not only as victims but also, at points, as agents of power and, in some instances, oppression. The study concludes that linguistic choice is central
Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze, Thomas-Michael Emeka Chukwumezie, Kenneth Ahaiwe C., Chinasa Abonyi and Henrietta Okafor
Heart of Redness. Drawing from Anibal Quijano’s theory of the coloniality of power, the study argues that language functions as an instrument through which colonial and neo-colonial systems … politics and identity, the ecological implications of linguistic dominance remain underexplored. Integrating coloniality of power with decolonial ecology, the study demonstrates how colonial-modern concepts such as development, progress, civilization
Ugomma Divine Iroakaze and Chiamaka Amalachukwu Ugoka
expression. In literary representations of women’s lives, these spatial restrictions often sustain gendered power relations and limit female autonomy. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s theory of space … contributing to feminist spatial criticism and advancing critical conversation on the intersection of space, power and gender in contemporary literary discourse
Fater VANGER and Chika O. OSE-AGBO
damage, the paper concludes that both Bassey and Inya link contemporary pollution to enduring power structures, while also making eco-destruction a site of active political resistance
Chioma Patricia Onuorah
attention to how transnational movement reshapes women’s encounters with cultural expectations and patriarchal power. Drawing on Transnational Feminist Theory and employing qualitative textual analysis and interpretive close reading
Okoro, Harmony Ezinne and Omoregie, Blessing Onaiwu Eyonju
framing and mainstream perceptions of sexual assault against women of colour, without institutional power. It analyses the challenges of narrating sexual violence by the victims, and the unconscious biases against … Western anti-rape law in sexual violence involving migrant African women and men-in-power using Adichie’s Dream Count
Onesimus Azunwanna and Comfort Adeleke-Adeniji
that trauma discourse occupies a central position in contemporary war rhetoric, serving as a powerful mechanism for negotiating identity, memory, power, and legitimacy within conflict situations