Poetry as Migration: Orbiting Through Nigeria and America in Segun Adekoya's Here and There
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angličtina
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Poetry as Migration: Orbiting Through Nigeria and America in Segun Adekoya's Here and There
Original language description
In this paper, I explore the ways in which Segun Adekoya in his poetry collection, Here and There, charts a migratory persona's experiences in Nigeria and America. I leverage the flâneurial adventure possible with poetry in the conceptual frame of orbiting, which I borrow from molecular ideas in chemistry and physics, to highlight how Adekoya structures experiences into schemes of movement across spaces beginning from home in Nigeria to America, and in between both as a cyclic reflection. With the term, orbiting, developed here as a conceptual prism catering to the collection's internal structure of poetic movements across places, I connect with Mathias Iroro Orhero's critical terminology, transpatiality. Thus, orbiting recurs as the scheme of a persona's movement, assuming a different concept yet a related deployment away from the regular Afrodiasporic reimagination of multiple spaces and times, with attendant social crises of/in homeland. This orbiting as a poetics fits Adekoya's literary mapping, as it does not in this sense track diasporic subjects familiar with multispatialities. However, Adekoya appropriates a hybrid form of poetic-scape and critical eyes, by the constitutive colonial and postcolonial details of lives in Nigeria and America. In adapting the adverbials of migration as a structural scheme for close reading of Adekoya's Here and There, I highlight the textually generative orbital structures undersigned by adverbs: "Here," which essentially evokes the poeticisation of Nigerian life; "There" that refracts the life outside Nigeria in America, as might also reverberate in other foreign climes; "Here and There," the third and final orbital scheme, burrows mainly into similarities and differences in both worlds.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Planeyo Journal of Arts And Humanities
ISSN
2651-5954
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Volume of the periodical
2
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
NG - NIGERIA
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
1-27
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