دانلود کتاب The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta

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Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of editors and contributors
The background
1 Introduction
2 Toward a bioregional, politico-historical, and sociocultural identity of the Niger Delta
Oratures and traditional festivals
3 Form and content of Ibibiod traditional festivals: Ekpo, Ekpe and Mbopo
4 Traditional Ijo poetry
5 The cultural aesthetics of Benin traditional festival performances
6 Urhobo udje: an indigenous satiric genre
Visual arts
7 Benin art: changes through time and space
8 Urhobo culture and modernism: configuring mutual reinforcements in the art of Bruce Onobrakpeya
9 Art for land and water: notes on Urhobo and their neighbors
Popular culture
10 Cosmopolitans at one with homeland: Niger Delta popular musicians from Rex Lawson and Victor Uwaifo to Omawumi and Burna Boy
11 Explorations in pidgin poetry from the Niger Delta
12 “Warri no dey carry last”: the Niger Delta in Nigeria’s stand-up comedic imaginary
Environmentalism
13 Environmentalism in modern poetry of the Niger Delta
14 Nature’s animism and its appropriation in Niger  Delta poetry
15 Narrative constructions of eco-disharmony in selected Niger Delta novels
Conflict literature
16 “The perfection of chaos”: heeding the nostalgic imperative in selected works by Ben Okri
17 From the Niger Delta’s viewpoint: the Nigerian Civil War literature
18 Bearing witness: a taxonomy of dissent in J.P. Clark- Bekederemo’s plays
19 Exploitation, corruption and agency in three Niger Delta movies
Of writers and personages
20 Literature, eco-activism and the Saro-Wiwa imaginary
21 The poetics of place and the Niger Delta minority discourse in Festus Iyayi’s fiction
22 Passivity and agency: the dilemma of female characters in the works of Zulu Sofola, Buchi Emecheta, and Tess Onwueme
Index