The representations of mental illnesses in literature have attracted scholarly attention in
Europe and North America, especially on patients' autobiographies. Pioneering efforts on …

Paradoxical metaphor, the co-occurrence of paradox and metaphor, constitutes an unusual
trope in the representation of mental processes of ailing characters in novels. Existing …

Existing studies on the Niger Delta condition—literary, historical and sociological—
concentrate on the eco-social effects of oil exploration and the politics of dispossession. The …

The representation of human's health situations is part of the social and redemptive vision of
the writer—every good literary text captures the sociological, psychological and the …

The artistic representation and thematisation of madness is a common subject in African
literary expression. However, unlike in countries in Europe and North America, where there …

This article focuses on the fundamental issues in the use of costumes and its relationship to
skin diseases in the Nigerian theatre. It examines skin diseases that can be contracted …