Stand-up Comedy (SUC), a form of entertainment involving humour, is commonly
deployed for social re-engineering among Africans, including Ivorians. Extant linguistic
studies on humour in Côte d’Ivoire concentrated mainly ...
Orature, a literature that is oral, is evident in African poetry, including that of
Francophone West African Negritude poets. Previous studies on West African
Francophone poetry focused on form, content and style with ...
Representations of the male in feminist discourse generally tend towards the negative.
Existing studies on male representations have focused on the feminist perspective, with little
attention paid to the masculinist ...
Reproductive challenges, like infertility, and depression constitute some of the thematic concerns in African literature. Existing studies in Francophone African literature have examined various social problems like ...
The quest for freedom and identity connotes a desire for rebirth and an assertion of a people’s ‘raison d’être,’ as evident in various Caribbean literary texts. Existing studies on Caribbean literature have focused mainly ...
Socio-historical realities such as wars, colonisation and migration are significant events in North African literature. Leïla Sebbar's creative writings are suffused with the socio-historical realities of Algeria. Previous ...
Stylistic tropes, a writer’s aesthetic use of linguistic features for an intended non-literal meaning, create a unique artistic effect in literary texts. Existing studies on the novels of Sony Labou Tansi and Calixthe ...
Deracination, forced migration from one locality to the other, and trauma: the attendant psychological consequences of such movement have been recurrent issues in Francophone Caribbean literature. Previous studies on ...
Satire is a recurrent strategy reflecting multiplicity of usage including the portrayal of political and socioeconomic realities in novels. Earlier studies on the novels of T. M. Aluko and Mikhail Bulgakov have looked ...
Reincarnation is the belief that the spirit of man after death transmigrates into another form or body to express itself. Existing studies on reincarnation in Francophone African literature emphasise the nature of reincarnated ...
Patriarchy is the manifestation and institutionalisation of male dominance over women and children in the family and the larger society. Extensive studies on patriarchy and oppression of the female gender in francophone ...
The relevance of culture and economy in the translation of advertisements for foreign markets continues to attract attention in translation studies. Existing studies on the influence of culture and market economy on the ...