Yoruba Eco-Proverbs In English: An Eco-Critical Study Of Niyi Osundare's Horses Of Memory

dc.creator	Fortress, Isaiah A., Onwuka, Edwin
dc.date.accessioned	2025-03-27T17:57:36Z
dc.description	In an attempt to promote African culture and tradition, current literary trends have been witnessing an increasing use of proverbs in African writing. New proverbs are cropping up and creatively modifying old known ones. This paper examines eco-proverbs/nature proverbs and its importance as literary resource tool today, in their meanings and relevance to contemporary social and aesthetic realities. We explore how he creatively deploys known Yoruba proverbs to capture and reconstruct nature focused proverbs, and how he uses these to promote his poetic vision of the natural environment related items like fauna, flora, landscape and seascape derived from Yoruba eco-proverbs. This paper is an eco-critical enquiry into the social, aesthetic interpretation of “Who is afraid of the proverb” on one hand, and in order to further explore the dynamics of Yoruba praise poetry, we examined his poetic deployment of nature centered metaphor, personification and imagery in the poem “For the one who departed”.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.identifier	http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/4358/
dc.identifier.uri	https://repository.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/handle/123456789/33472
dc.language	en
dc.subject	P Philology. Linguistics, PE English, PR English literature
dc.title	Yoruba Eco-Proverbs In English: An Eco-Critical Study Of Niyi Osundare's Horses Of Memory
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