What about Love? 'Defiant Love' and Civic Dissent in Season of Crimson Blossoms and The Death of Vivek Oji
(2023)
Journal Article
Nenadović, A. (2023). What about Love? 'Defiant Love' and Civic Dissent in Season of Crimson Blossoms and The Death of Vivek Oji. Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society, 54(2), 277-300. https://doi.org/10.1163/18757421-05402004
This article examines the representation of love in two contemporary Nigerian novels, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s Season of Crimson Blossoms (2015) and Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji (2020). Inspired by bell hooks’s understanding of love and Dani... Read More about What about Love? 'Defiant Love' and Civic Dissent in Season of Crimson Blossoms and The Death of Vivek Oji.