28.3852, FYI: Call for Papers: A Festschrift for Oluwatoyin ’Bimpe Jegede

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Subject: 28.3852, FYI: Call for Papers: A Festschrift for Oluwatoyin ’Bimpe Jegede

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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 14:44:22
From: Ayo Dr Osisanwo [ayosisdelexus at yahoo.com]
Subject: Call for Papers: A Festschrift for Oluwatoyin ’Bimpe Jegede

 
Oluwatoyin ’Bimpe Jegede, a Professor of English (Literature) at the
Department of English, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, clocks 60 in August,
2018.   This academic giant is Fellow, British Council of Nigeria (1996);
Fellow, Centre for Afro-American Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
(1997); Fellow, Comparative Literature Association, University of South
Africa, Pretoria (2000); International Panelist, Commonwealth Book Prize for
Literature (2007-2009); and Fellow, Firebird Foundation for Anthropological
Research (2017).  

Professor Jegede’s research works, published in widely-referenced academic
books and journals, focus, mainly, on the relationships between orality and
literacy in African Literature; and, partly, on the myriad modes of deployment
of poetry and drama not only in Orature but also in Africana discourses within
and outside of Africa.  From her doctoral research, which dwells on “Court
Poetry Tradition and Performance in Nigeria”, and her numerous scholarly
publications across the globe, this erudite scholar has successfully carved a
niche for herself in the field of Oral Literature and Folklore Studies, where
she has been able to locate the creative role of the woman and theorise on the
interface between orality and literacy.  For her contribution to research and
pedagogy in orality and literacy, Professor Jegede deserves a collection in
which her research foci are developed by academics to memorialise her
scholarship.  Therefore, a book, "Literary and Linguistic Perspectives in
Orality, Literacy and Gender Studies", has been proposed, and is designed to
address theoretical, polemical and empirical issues in Professor Jegede’s
research foci.  Literary scholars, linguists and others in cognate disciplines
are invited to submit papers on the research scope of Professor Jegede.
Suggested themes include, but are not limited to, literary or linguistic
dimensions such as:

1. Current theoretical orientations in oral literature 
2. Oral poetry tradition and poetry performance in Nigeria
3. The poetics of new Nigerian poetry in English
4. Movements and traditions in African poetry
5. Traditionalism and performativity (of court poetry)
6. Semiotics in (court) poetry performance in Nigeria
7. Subversion and body poetics in contemporary African poetry 
8. The Yoruba Oriki and  praise poetry in Africa 
9. Jegede’s scholarship on orature
10. Folklore and politics in Nigeria
11. Popular culture, carnivals and orature
12. Fieldwork in oral literature
13. Relevance and prospects of feminism in Africa
14. Women, power and subversion in orature
15. Women’s empowerment and cultural creativity 
16. Women’s oral genres
17. Orature in the digital world
18. Cultures of orature and masculinities
19. Nigerian female writers
20. Sexuality, gender and ideology in African poetry and drama
21. Literacy acquisition in literature-in-English (classroom) 
22. Myths and conflicts in African poetry and drama
23. Pragmatics, stylistics, discourses and linguistic choices in orality or
gender studies
24. Pragmatics, stylistics, discourses and linguistic choices in African
poetry and drama
25. Language of African literature 

The MLA or APA reference style is recommended. Articles, which should be
between 5000 and 7000 words long, should be sent electronically to all the
editors: 

1. Dr Ayo Osisanwo (ayosisanwo at gmail.com)
Department of English, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

2. Dr Kazeem Adebiyi-Adelabu (aka.adebiyi at gmail.com)
Department of English, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

3. Dr Adebayo Mosobalaje (whoarethose at hotmail.com)
Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

The deadline for submission of articles is Friday, December 29, 2017.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Discipline of Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Ling & Literature
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





 



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