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The Wounded Child: Trauma and Recycled Inhumanity in Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Adichie's Purple Hibiscus

Applying the literary apparatuses of Caruth (1996) and Etim (2008) to both texts, this paper finds that trauma is the driving force behind the misdeed...

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A Pragmatic Analysis of Newspaper Headlines on Security Issues in Nigeria

This paper analyses newspaper headlines on security issues in Nigeria in order to describe the speech acts used in the headlines, identify the types o...

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Rethinking Gender, Patriarchy and Female 'Thingification' in Ahmed Yerima's Jakadiya

Justifiably, gender is the basis for most social relations in most societies. Most extant studies on Yerima's Jakadiya hold that patriarchy or men con...

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Memories of Women and Children's Representation in Marsha Skrypuch's Making Bombs for Hitler and Tiyambe Zeleza's Smouldering Charcoal

In this paper, we deploy the comparative approach in exploring the conditions of women and children caught in Hitler's dictatorship of Nazi Germany an...

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A Postcolonial Semiotic Reading of Selected Poems in Martin Akpan's Ripples of Rebirth

In this paper, I study two selected poems in Martin Akpan's Ripples of Rebirth from the theoretical positionality of postcolonial semiotics, which is ...

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