Language and the Construction of Multiple Identities in the Nigerian Novel

Aboh, Romanus

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“…Language and culture are remarkably interfaced [45]. Through reaffirmation, cultural identity, as a critical portrayal of distinguishing groups [46] sharing identical values respectively, should be redefined in its own image [47] via language reorganization. Culture shapes the way that language being used [46].…”

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“…Through reaffirmation, cultural identity, as a critical portrayal of distinguishing groups [46] sharing identical values respectively, should be redefined in its own image [47] via language reorganization. Culture shapes the way that language being used [46]. Positive language attitude generates a positive cultural identity [45], which contributes to the development and advancement of the language [48].…”

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Fenghuang and Phoenix: Translation of Culture

Lyujie

2020

IJLLL

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Fenghuang and phoenix from ancient myths are both culture-loaded words that have unique features and comprehensive historical developing routes. This paper focuses on their translations to find out the reflected cultural issues and power influences under the ideas of cultural identity and language power. Classic literatures like The Analects and The Tempest in bilingual versions are compared in terms of the translation for both animals, as well as by searching the different social backgrounds and timelines of those literatures. The mixed usage of phoenix and fenghuang in both Chinese (East) and English (West) culture makes confusions but also enriches both languages and cultures.

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Fenghuang and Phoenix: Translation of Culture

Lyujie

2020

IJLLL

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“…Language has been a factor in determining what is African and what is not African in literary discourses; thus, language is the basic material of literature (Webster, 1990, p. 32). African writers and critics have engaged language the issue in African literature from different angles among them are: (Wali, 1963); (Achebe, 1975); (Obiechina, 1975); (Ngugi, 1986); (Irele, 1988); (Ohaegbo, 2000); (Muokoma wa Ngugi, 2018); (Aboh, 2018)…”

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Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism: Black speculative writings in search of meaning and criteria

Sunday

Akung

2022

RJAH

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This paper interrogates the concepts of Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism, describes and interprets the indices that differentiates both concepts. The paper is informed by the belief that all black speculative writings are Afrofuturistic, and views this classification as inappropriate because Dery’s Afrofuturism is clearly an African-American signification that provides no space for the African imaginary. Okorafor’s Africanfuturism is hinged on the fact that, there are narrative convergence and departure for both concepts. Using meta-criticism, textual examples are drawn from both concepts, for purpose of critical elucidation and clarification. Meta criticism is systematic, logical, and views the text as an ongoing process, where the critic’s opinion becomes a means to the realization of meaning. This article contends that there is the need for a different set of criteria for evaluation and categorization of both concepts, and proposes five-point criteria—experience, authorship, language, black heroism and technology for their evaluation.

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Chapter 5. “Is your culture better than mine?”

Oji

2024

FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures

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Language and the Construction of Multiple Identities in the Nigerian Novel

Cited by 10 publications

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Fenghuang and Phoenix: Translation of Culture

Fenghuang and Phoenix: Translation of Culture

Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism: Black speculative writings in search of meaning and criteria

Chapter 5. “Is your culture better than mine?”

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