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in Transcending Transcendental Homelessness: Exile and the Idea of the Primitive in Brazil
> Comparative Literature
Published: 01 June 2024
Figure 5. Dimitri Ismailovitch, Yoruba (1941). Oil on canvas, 90 × 71.5 cm. Mendes Cavalcanti collection, Rio de Janeiro. Photograph by Jorge Bastos.
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (2): 164–185.
Published: 01 March 2008
... . ____. “How Yoruba Was Reduced to Writing.” Odu: A Journal of Yoruba, Edo and Related Studies 8 ( 1960 ): 49 -58. ____. “Nineteenth-Century Origins of Nigerian Nationalism.” Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 2 . 2 ( 1961 ): 196 -210. Akinnaso, F. Niyi. “Policy and Experiment...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 201–219.
Published: 01 June 2024
... primitive,” capable of producing authentically what earlier modernist primitivists attempted to produce by simulation. The article then argues that Tutuola anticipated the reception of his texts and himself as primitive, and it describes how he manipulated a binary division in Yoruba folktales between...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 260–267.
Published: 01 June 2024
... or between mediated and nonmediated experiences. One could push this argument further and argue that unlike Césaire and Senghor, Tutuola’s primitivism is not mediated by European ideas of Africa but by his own experiences as simultaneously a Yoruba man, a Christian, and a colonial subaltern. Tutuola’s...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 135–156.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Figure 5. Dimitri Ismailovitch, Yoruba (1941). Oil on canvas, 90 × 71.5 cm. Mendes Cavalcanti collection, Rio de Janeiro. Photograph by Jorge Bastos. ...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 123–138.
Published: 01 June 2019
... ). With political independence in 1960, English was established as a national language, along with Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo, and remained, for the majority of students, the primary language of instruction from “the fourth year of primary education on” ( Gut and Fuchs 244 ). The adoption of English as a lingua franca...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 47–63.
Published: 01 January 2011
... of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001 . Print. Zabus, Chantal. “The Yoruba Bacchae: Wole Soyinka's De-Aryanization of Greek Civilization.” (Un) Writing Empire . Ed. Theo D'haen. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998 . 203 -28. Print...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 429–450.
Published: 01 December 2024
.... Hernández Cruz announces a decolonial nostalgia: “Imagine ourselves in the Sevilla of the Arabs holding court with ibn ‘Arabi and al-Ghazálí, quickly switch over to the halls of Tenochtitlán, then once again wake up in our contemporary reality dancing Yoruba choreography in some club in Manhattan near...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (3): 276–278.
Published: 01 June 2004
...,” is a
particularly noteworthy review of this history.
It is his ability to do careful readings of texts that will impress readers most. Fluent in
Yoruba, George brings a linguistic command to readings of Fagunwa that are necessarily
lost on Anglophone readers of this important Nigerian writer. Likewise, his...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (3): 279–281.
Published: 01 June 2004
...,” is a
particularly noteworthy review of this history.
It is his ability to do careful readings of texts that will impress readers most. Fluent in
Yoruba, George brings a linguistic command to readings of Fagunwa that are necessarily
lost on Anglophone readers of this important Nigerian writer. Likewise, his...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (3): 262–266.
Published: 01 June 2004
... in
Yoruba, George brings a linguistic command to readings of Fagunwa that are necessarily
lost on Anglophone readers of this important Nigerian writer. Likewise, his readings of
the Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka demonstrate George’s deep embeddedness in Yoruba
cosmology. And this is what makes the book...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (3): 266–269.
Published: 01 June 2004
...,” is a
particularly noteworthy review of this history.
It is his ability to do careful readings of texts that will impress readers most. Fluent in
Yoruba, George brings a linguistic command to readings of Fagunwa that are necessarily
lost on Anglophone readers of this important Nigerian writer. Likewise, his...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (3): 269–274.
Published: 01 June 2004
... in
Yoruba, George brings a linguistic command to readings of Fagunwa that are necessarily
lost on Anglophone readers of this important Nigerian writer. Likewise, his readings of
the Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka demonstrate George’s deep embeddedness in Yoruba
cosmology. And this is what makes the book...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (3): 274–275.
Published: 01 June 2004
... in
Yoruba, George brings a linguistic command to readings of Fagunwa that are necessarily
lost on Anglophone readers of this important Nigerian writer. Likewise, his readings of
the Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka demonstrate George’s deep embeddedness in Yoruba
cosmology. And this is what makes the book...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (1): 27–41.
Published: 01 January 2001
... of Biafra had
been declared, but from the Yoruba Western Region of Nigeria. In other words,
in trying to find a way of bringing the war to a halt he had no ethnic axe to grind,
but only sought to re-establish the integrity of the newly independent nation of
Nigeria and its people.
It is also perhaps...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 300–315.
Published: 01 September 2012
... described as “an edgy brown butch perfor-
mance ensemble.” Anayvette María Martínez, daughter of a Salvadoran father
and a “Nicaraguense-American mother,” defines herself as “daughter of Elegua/
Yemaya” an allusion to the Orishas of the Yoruba Pantheon.10 This definition
invokes an African-American...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 389–407.
Published: 01 December 2016
... transla-
tion” (Hallen and Sodipo 41), which has been applied by Hallen and Sodipo to
Yorùbá language and culture; or the famous Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, whose modi-
fications can be found in the work of such African philosophers as Alexis Kagame,
who maintains that Bantu languages reflect a distinct...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 64–85.
Published: 01 January 2011
... to the tangible return of the land to the majority?
6 Ntzebeza and Hall (95–98) analyze evictions of farm dwellers. See also the documentary Promised
Land (2010), directed by Yoruba Richen. For a broad overview of the land question, see James and
Walker.
7 It might be interesting to reconsider Mpe’s...