Lexico-semantic Features as Creative/Stylistic Strategies in Joseph Edoki’s The Upward Path

Edokpayi Justina N.
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Edokpayi Justina N.: Ambrose All University, Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria

International Journal of World Policy and Development Studies, 2020, vol. 6, issue 2, 19-27

Abstract: This study examines and explicates the lexico-semantic parameters, which Joseph Edoki deploys to convey his themes in The Upward Path, his second novel. Edoki is a contemporary Nigerian novelist who is preoccupied with the socio-political problems in Africa with the hope of a brighter future. The novel is the story of Mr. Gaga, a Rhwandan American PhD student, on a fact finding mission in Savannah, an African country, for his Thesis entitled ‘’ Why Africa is Underdeveloped’’. For failing to portray Africa in line with the negative views about the continent in his proposal, Gaga’s supervisor recalls him back to America in anger. But in defense of his conviction and research findings about Africa, Gaga remains in Savannah to complete his Thesis. This study is of significance because as a linguistic study, it will serve as a springboard to future researches in the language of African literature. Moreover, the good governance, which Edoki presents in Savannah, the fictional country, in which the novel under study is set, is a blue print for the development of Africa.

Keywords: Lexico-semantics; Findings; Good governance; Transformation; Leadership. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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