Poetry as Migration: Orbiting Through Nigeria and America in Segun Adekoya's Here and There

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Poetry as Migration: Orbiting Through Nigeria and America in Segun Adekoya's Here and There

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

In this paper, I explore the ways in which Segun Adekoya in his poetry collection, Here and There, charts a migratory persona&apos;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&apos;s internal structure of poetic movements across places, I connect with Mathias Iroro Orhero&apos;s critical terminology, transpatiality. Thus, orbiting recurs as the scheme of a persona&apos;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&apos;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&apos;s Here and There, I highlight the textually generative orbital structures undersigned by adverbs: &quot;Here,&quot; which essentially evokes the poeticisation of Nigerian life; &quot;There&quot; that refracts the life outside Nigeria in America, as might also reverberate in other foreign climes; &quot;Here and There,&quot; the third and final orbital scheme, burrows mainly into similarities and differences in both worlds.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Poetry as Migration: Orbiting Through Nigeria and America in Segun Adekoya's Here and There

Popis výsledku anglicky

In this paper, I explore the ways in which Segun Adekoya in his poetry collection, Here and There, charts a migratory persona&apos;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&apos;s internal structure of poetic movements across places, I connect with Mathias Iroro Orhero&apos;s critical terminology, transpatiality. Thus, orbiting recurs as the scheme of a persona&apos;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&apos;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&apos;s Here and There, I highlight the textually generative orbital structures undersigned by adverbs: &quot;Here,&quot; which essentially evokes the poeticisation of Nigerian life; &quot;There&quot; that refracts the life outside Nigeria in America, as might also reverberate in other foreign climes; &quot;Here and There,&quot; the third and final orbital scheme, burrows mainly into similarities and differences in both worlds.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60205 - Literary theory

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Planeyo Journal of Arts And Humanities

ISSN

2651-5954

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Svazek periodika

2

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

NG - Nigérijská federativní republika

Počet stran výsledku

27

Strana od-do

1-27

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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