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Christopher Okigbo dwells on the same theme in Heavensgate where his atonement becomes vicarious as there is a sense in which it ...

is because either in the literal or metaphoric sense, the internalization of western poetic traditions and the influence on the ...

preoccupation with exile becomes more literal than allegorical; that is, while it is possible to locate part of their thrust wit ...

considering what possible configuration they extract from the “event out there”. Just as the nations and regions on the continen ...

endowment, these writers are obligated to articulate the burdens of their contemporary psycho-social circumstances among which i ...

of misrule and bungling on the part of the military forced the fate of exile upon citizens either directly or indirectly. In add ...

states are no exclusive design of western imperialism, the chapter also conducts forays into the internal socio-political dynami ...

apartheid South African diaspora which the imperative of globalization has necessarily induced. For this reason, memory becomes ...

CHAPTER ONE POSTCOLONIALITY, EXILE AND THE MUTATION OF CONCEPTS The concept of exile, like the exilic subjects themselves, is a ...

implicated in the initial dislocation which the imposition of colonial rule engendered in the colonies created through western i ...

the dynamics of internal progress, forcing a rift and deracination between a people and their history of progress, it subsequent ...

concept which must be understood as reinforcing the dynamism with which it has come to be identified. But as well as this, and p ...

selective in the way it claims its victims and patrons,^10 it is clear why it is not uncommon to find writers whose condition of ...

world becomes all the more compelling. In choosing to operate within this timeline, the import of Isidore Okpewho’s (1999: xiv) ...

Most of the experiences represented in the works constitute another way of capturing the ordeals of people who, one way or the o ...

why Gayatri Spivak (2002: 48) observes that the phenomenon of “large-scale movements of people” from these parts of the world ha ...

dislocation. Speaking specifically about what he terms “diaspora space” Avtar Brah contends that it is “‘inhabited’ not only by ...

Frank Dietz 1992: 107). Yet at other times, as in the line of thought pursued in this research, the idea of home is synonymous w ...

a kind of metaphoric exile in order to be at one with the processes and intricacies by which intellectual articulations are made ...

Breytenbach’s one-sided paradigm for all its breathtaking import, requires nevertheless that we examine the experience of exile ...