Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Dedication V
3. Acknowledgements
4. Contents IX
5. Introduction: Phases, Faces, and the Currency of Resistance in Emerging Nigerian Poetry 1
6. Part I: Activist Poetics, Gender, and Resistance
7. Of Generations or of Visions? Aesthetics of Resistance in Emerging Nigerian Poetry 11
8. Blatant Dissidence and the Homologous Aesthetics of Contemporary Postcolonial Nigerian Poetry 27
9. One Body, One Nation: Questing for Peace-Building and Equilibrium in Mabel Osakwe’s Poetry 41
10. Executive Pharisees in Select Poems in Ndubuisi Martins’ Answers through the Bramble 57
11. Romeo Oriogun: The Audacious Tones of New Nigerian Poetry 71
12. Exploring Gender-Based Violence in Nigerian Poetry: An Analysis of Al-Amin El-Nasir’s Poems 83
13. Part II: Psycho-Social Trauma, Terrorism and Addictive Disorders in Poetry
14. Psychosocial Fracture and Restorative Images in Barth Akpah’s Land of Tales 97
15. Echoes of Carnage: Reflections on Terrorism and Insurgency in Contemporary Nigerian Poetry 111
16. The Traumatic Expression of War of Insurgency in Rasaq Malik Gbolahan’s The Other Names of Grief 127
17. Contextualizing Drug Addiction in Kola Eke’s February 1976 and Other Poems 143
18. Part III: Language Aesthetics, Memory and Distress in 21st-Century Nigerian Poetry
19. Lexical Construction of Eco-Critical Ideologies in Stephen Kekeghe’s Rumbling Sky 159
20. Akin Bello’s Flying Universe as Histopoetics 181
21. Painful Poetry: Memory and the Poetics of Postcolonial Disenchantment in Chimalum Nwankwo’s War Poetry 201
22. About the Authors
23. Index