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FAMILY DYNAMICS, FAITH AND IDENTITY ISSUES IN JONATHAN FRANZEN’S CROSSROADS
This article analyzes the complex relation between family dynamics, faith and personal identity in J. Franzen’s novel Crossroads. Set in the 1970s, the novel relates the story of the Hildebrandt family showcasing their struggle with identity, family, and moral issues in a…
MYTH AND VALUE IN WOLE SOYINKA’S IDANRE & OTHER POEMS
This work examines some existential concerns and mythological structures that shape human experience in Wole Soyinka’s Idanre & Other Poems. It explores how mythic deities and ritual consciousness operate as cultural responses to the persistent instability and the existential troubles within human…
AN APOCALYPTIC READING OF SOCIAL RESISTANCE IN NGUGI WA THIONG’O’S A GRAIN OF WHEAT
This article proposes an apocalyptic reading of social resistance in A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong’o. The topic offers a nuanced interpretive framework for understanding the interplay between destruction and renewal. Drawing on a trauma-theoretical framework and biblical conceptions of…
INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE, GENDER SUBVERSION AND RACIAL RESISTANCE IN RIVERS SOLOMON’S AN UNKINDNESS OF GHOSTS
This article examines how R. Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts challenges racial hierarchy, gender norms, and the ideologies that sustain the social order aboard the Matilda. Through a society organized around racial segregation, rigid gender classifications, and theocracy, the novel reveals how…
BUILDING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HUMAN BEINGS AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S ARROW OF GOD
The research paper intends, not only to highlight how nature or the physical environment appears to be the essence of the Igbo socio cultural life in Arrow of God. The study also unveils the interactions between the Igbo people and the environment…
IDENTITY TRIBALISM AND DYSTOPIAN BALKANIZATION: SATIRIZING INTERSECTIONAL DISCOURSE IN CHUCK PALAHNIUK’S ADJUSTMENT DAY
This article examines Chuck Palahniuk’s dystopian novel Adjustment Day (2018) as a satire of identity-based separatism, academic discourse, and radical social constructivism. By dramatizing the violent partition of the United States into racially and sexually segregated enclaves, including Gaysia, Blacktopia, and Caucasia,…
CONSTRUCTING IMMIGRATION ETHICS IN FRANK-WALTER STEINMEIER’S NATURALISATION CEREMONY SPEECH
This article discusses the discursive construction of ethics in Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s naturalization ceremony speech. Steinmeier’s discourse helps understand that language can help construct particular representations of immigration. Thus, immigration is not simply adding demographic value but beneficial. The study explores the linguistic…
L’ETUDE DE LA PHONOTACTIQUE DE L’ANGLAIS
L’article étudie les sons de l’anglais ainsi que leur système de fonctionnement. Il revoit en profondeur toutes les possibilités que la langue admet dans la construction de syllabes. En effet l’étude du système des sons de cette langue est régie par des…