The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta

The Background 1. Introduction 2. Towards a Bioregional, Politico-Historical, and Sociocultural Identity of the Niger Delta Oratures and Traditional Festivals 3. Form and Content of Ibibiod Traditional Festivals: Ekpo, Ekpe and Mbopo 4. Traditional Ijo Poetry 5. The Cultural Aesthetics of Benin Traditional Festival Performances 6. Urhobo Udje: An Indigenous Satiric Genre Visual Arts 7. Benin Art: Changes Through Time and Space 8. Urhobo Culture and Modernism: Configuring Mutual Reinforcements in the Art of Bruce Onobrakpeya 9. Art for Land and Water: Notes on Urhobo and Their Neighbors Popular Culture 10. Cosmopolitans at One with Homeland: Niger Delta Popular Musicians from Rex Lawson and Victor Uwaifo to Omawumi and Burna Boy 11. Explorations in Pidgin Poetry from the Niger Delta 12. "Warri No Dey Carry Last": The Niger Delta in Nigeria's Stand-Up Comedy Imaginary Environmentalism 13. Environmentalism in Modern Poetry of the Niger Delta 14. Nature's Animism and its Appropriation in Niger Delta Poetry 15. Narrative Constructions of Eco-disharmony in Selected Niger Delta Novels Conflict Literature 16. "The perfection of chaos": Heeding the nostalgic imperative in selected works by Ben Okri 17. From the Niger Delta's Viewpoint: The Nigerian Civil War Literature 18. Bearing Witness: A Taxonomy of Dissent in J.P. Clark-Bekederemo's Plays 19. Exploitation, Corruption and Agency in Three Niger Delta Movies Of Writers and Personages 20. Literature, Eco-activism and the Saro-Wiwa Imaginary 21. The Poetics of Place and the Niger Delta Minority Discourse in Festus Iyayi's Fiction 22. Passivity and Agency: The Dilemma of Female Characters in Works of Zulu Sofola, Buchi Emecheta, and Tess Onwueme