Translating national allegories: the case of crime fiction

Rolls, Alistair; Vuaille-Barcan, Marie-Laure; West-Sooby, John

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“…For Lewis (1958), "allegory, in some sense, belongs not to medieval man but to man, or even to mind, in general" (p. 44). Though much more rampant in political appreciations, allegory has also been adopted to address many functional purposes like religion Dimitriu, 2014;Khan, 2017;Knapp, 2014;Phair, 2010;Scalia, 2016;Shohat, 2006) to satire, raise rhetoric, promote, and suppress ideological systems (Hile, 2017;Milford & Rowland, 2012;Virtue, 2013;Xu, 2018); for "legal ownership and use" as contained in Chaucer's Melibee (Taylor, 2009); Crime fictions and other moral suasions (Rolls et al, 2016); culture, gender, race, and ethnicity (Achinger, 2013;Gilfedder, 2016;Kaarst-Brown, 2017;R. C. Smith, 1949); and not in the least for pure appreciation of literary values, language, and cognitive figuration (Harris & Tolmie, 2011;Monelle, 1997;Rolls et al, 2016).…”

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Narrative of governance crisis in Nigeria: Allegory of resource curse and “Emergence” in Tunde Kelani’s Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwò

Olaiya

2020

Cogent Social Sciences

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From the resource curse perspective, this article investigated how Tunde Kelani's twin-movies, Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwò, explored the vulnerability of leaders in natural-resource dependent state to corrupt practices, leading ultimately to governance crisis. Textual and mythical representations in the movies are critically analysed to explain the significance of tackling governance crises during the leadership-making process. Significantly, the article investigated the historical revisionism contained in the films as a predictive imagination of how the future (political-economy) will remain bleak in the face of the continued maladministration of the resources in Nigeria. Focusing on the socio-economic and political malaise that has continued to play out since the discovery of crude oil at Oloibiri community in Nigeria by mid-1950s, the article sought to unravel what Tunde Kelani's allegorical postulations in Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwò reveal about leadership experiences of states depending solely on natural resources income. It explained how the absence of shared goal and dearth of mass mobilization strategies, which were successfully deployed in the films for denouncing despotism and yokes of elitism, are lacking in the present-day Nigeria. The insulations against irresponsible public administration, which the leadership-making process in Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwò rigidly built into the leadership-making process in Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwo, arguably, showcase the consequences of unscrupulous choices emanating from gamed electoral system inherent in the modern liberal democracies. In doing so, the study showed how the conjoined films are a unique art that figuratively lends itself to explanations of leadership challenges arising from natural resource endowments. Taiwo A. Olaiya ABOUT THE AUTHOR Taiwo A. Olaiya (Esq.) is multidisciplinary. He successfully bagged degrees in Demography & Social Statistics, Laws, and Public Administration from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria where he is currently a senior faculty member affiliated to the Department of Public Administration. His specialisation includes African studies, comparative political governance, policy analysis, financial management, and research methods. PUBLIC INTEREST STATEMENTFocusing on the socio-economic and political discontent that has continued to play out since the discovery of crude oil in Nigeria by mid-1950s, the article explores the allegorical postulations in Tunde Kelani's Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwò to explain the leadership experiences of states depending solely on natural resources income.

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Narrative of governance crisis in Nigeria: Allegory of resource curse and “Emergence” in Tunde Kelani’s Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwò

Olaiya

2020

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“…(quoted in Moosavinia & Baji, 2018, p. 2) Allegorical work of art is somewhat rampant, even from the medieval times (Asay, 2013; Knapp, 2015) through to postmodern and contemporary eras (Dovey, 1988;Rosenbrück, 2016;Cichosz, 2017). Though much more rampant in political appreciations, allegory has also been adopted to address many functional purposes like religion (Shohat, 2006: Phair, 2010: Brozgal, 2013Dimitriu, 2014;Knapp, 2014)' for rhetoric, promotion and suppression of ideological system (Milford & Rowland, 2010, Virtue, 2013; for "legal ownership and use' as contained in Chaucer's Melibee (Taylor, 2009); Crime fictions and other moral suasions (Rolls, Vuaille-Barcan & West-Sooby, 2016); culture, gender, race and ethnicity (Smith, 1949;Achinger, 2013;Kaarst-Brown, 2017); and not in the least for pure appreciation of literary values, language and cognitive figuration (Monelle, 1997;Harris & Tolmie, 2011;Rolls et al, 2016).…”

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Narrative of Governance Crisis in Nigeria: Allegories of Resource Curse and ‘Emergence’ from Tunde Kelani’s Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwọ

Olaiya¹

2019

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Creating a national crime fiction through allegory translation: from Sherlock Holmes, the western detective to Relentless Avni, the turkish Sherlock Holmes

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2022

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Translating national allegories: the case of crime fiction

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

Narrative of governance crisis in Nigeria: Allegory of resource curse and “Emergence” in Tunde Kelani’s Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwò

Narrative of governance crisis in Nigeria: Allegory of resource curse and “Emergence” in Tunde Kelani’s Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwò

Narrative of Governance Crisis in Nigeria: Allegories of Resource Curse and ‘Emergence’ from Tunde Kelani’s Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwọ

Creating a national crime fiction through allegory translation: from Sherlock Holmes, the western detective to Relentless Avni, the turkish Sherlock Holmes

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