Publications

Publication details [#65630]

Chizoba Akpah, Bartholomew. 2018. Satire, humour and parody in 21st century Nigeria women's poetry. The European Journal of Humour Research 6 (4) : 133–144.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

feminism | humor | parody | poetry | women's language

Place, Publisher

Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies

Annotation

This assay explores how the aesthetics of humour, satire and parody are used in chosen Nigerian women’s poetry to blame and etch the collective ethos of women’s experience in modern Nigerian society and to defy male chauvinism in modern Nigerian women’s poetry.