| Abstract: |
This is an investigation into how sexual identity is explored and incorporated into Hausa hagiography in order to enrich Hausa literary space as evidence in the Hausa written poetry of the 21st Century. The Hausa customs and traditions are checked alongside the influence on geographical space and time in the entirety of Nigerian literature, African literature and world literature with a quest to unveil how this is related to the 21st Century northern poets. On the other hand, how they have successfully underscored the theme of sexual identity as a postmodernist move to explicate certain human complexes pertaining or essential to the Hausas. Examining the poet’s descriptive imagery of sexual experiences, responses and how such captured the paradigms of relationships within the ambit of love, desires, belief, social practises, spiritual expectations and the freedom to thought patterns. We have engaged this argument through the selected poems of Sylvia Kankara whom is a northern poetess. |
EBONYI JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE
