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  • Art, Society and Identity
    Udenta O. Udenta
    Art, Society and Identity is an important and timely intervention in the study of postcolonial African literature given, not only its profound reading of select fictional, poetic and dramatic texts, but most crucially its comprehensive rebuttal of the postmodernist and poststructuralist invasion of the postcolonial African aesthetic domain. The author combines an authoritative ...
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    71,55 €

  • Heroism and Critical Consciousness in African Literature
    Udenta O. Udenta
    Heroism and Critical Consciousness in African Literature which was originally published in 1994 as Ideological Sanction and Social Action in African Literature is a stimulating discourse on the subjectivisation of the heroic type in African literature as a product of historical and social forces and processes and the location of aesthetic consciousness that is undergirded by te...
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    71,68 €

  • Book of Knowledge and Great Understanding
    Udenta O. Udenta
    This particular volume of the boyhood works, in two parts, reveals the early philosophical musing of Udenta O. Udenta, even as a secondary school boy, leading him to make apt pronouncements such as:“Malignant and anarchic problems will face a country with ethnic and tribal affliction and jingoism if the leader is not iron-willed and without leadership acumen” and “The unificati...
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    27,56 €

  • 37 Seasons before the Tornado
    Udenta O. Udenta
    In the Preface to this collection, the poet says “Season is another name for year in the same way that wind incarnates geography, turbulence or even quietude. Such contradiction is the joy of poetry, especially the type that deploys allusive and metaphoric sequences for significatory purposes. The celebration of life is the acknowledgement of death just as the arrest of time eq...
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    24,36 €

  • Autonomy of Values
    Udenta O. Udenta
    In this highly challenging, provocative and sometimes, disturbing philosophical work, the author argues that reality is a function of value while value in turn projects three distinct properties: determination, affirmation and mediation. He contends that all values are amoral at their point of incarnation; that determination is a process of becoming; that affirmation of values ...
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    52,41 €

  • Democratic Transformation and Social Change in Nigeria
    Udenta O. Udenta
    Democratic Transformation and Social Change in Nigeria nuances the organic connectedness of the intellectual conscience and critical social practice of an individual to the wider context of the historical, ideological, political and cultural forces implicated in the construction of the different phases of Nigeria’s postcolonial moment. The first of a 3-volume study of the struc...
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    62,65 €

  • Poetic Reminiscences
    Udenta O. Udenta
    This volume, in three parts, of the Boyhood Works Series of Udenta O. Udenta contains the poetic ruminations of a highly artistic youngster already profoundly familiar with the classics of world poetry in his first 13 years of life; which he creatively manipulates to reflect philosophically on his cultural environment. ...
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    24,64 €

  • Art, Ideology and Social Commitment in African Poetry
    Udenta O. Udenta
    In this study the author argues that African poetry is a response to the socio-cultural and political realities of the African condition shaped, as it were, by the specificities of African pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial experience. The author’s contention is that the study of African poetry must situate, as its take-off point, the mediation of the aesthetic imagination...
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    41,76 €

  • Ribblings in Youthhood
    Udenta O. Udenta
    This final and sixth volume of Udenta O. Udenta’s boyhood writings offers a collection of creative pieces ranging from a poetic drama steeped in Graeco-Roman mythical lore and short stories recalling the pangs of the short-lived Republic of Biafra and explorations into the magical and supernatural realm of tales anchored in the Igbo worldview. ...
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    24,59 €

  • Illumination
    Udenta O. Udenta
    Illumination. Essays on Democracy, Culture, Peace and Social Development in Nigeria is a fascinating collection of essays on the democratic process, peace practice, cultural consciousness and social development in Nigeria. In the first of a 4-volume collection of essays, the author argues that Nigeria’s accelerated social progress and political and economic transformation will ...
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    52,35 €