title: Emergent Poetry of Northern Nigeria within Digital Space
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metadata.value: Lyakhovich, Anastasia V.
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metadata.value: 2022-03-04T18:05:28Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-03-04T18:05:28Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.value: Lyakhovich A. V. Emergent Poetry of Northern Nigeria within Digital Space. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2021, vol. 13, issue 4, pp. 484–497.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2021.402
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/35467
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metadata.value: The author of this article presents an analytical study of a poetry forum at kanoonline.com,
  which targets Northern Nigerian readership. The forum reflects emerging literature as it sets
  out to shape its own standards of literary creativity, transmission, circulation, as well as communication
  reality and perception in cyberspace. Poetic texts are created in a digital medium,
  a means that presents itself as an inexhaustible source for the rapid circulation and unlimited
  distribution of texts. The emergence of a text as a digital unit ensures the immediacy of its
  communication to an audience, which simultaneously generates intensive reader feedback.
  Based on an analysis of selected topics, the author discusses metatextuality as being the essential
  nature of a digital text. The posting of a text, which is obviously a completed product of
  individual creation, serves as a starting point for a further creative process. The agent of this
  textual reworking is the audience which generates different interpretations of a given literary
  piece. What we witness is a switch from an individual creative process to an impersonal
  collective deconstruction, a process engendering metatexts. Most of the abovementioned forum’s
  experimental poetic formations can hardly be captured, identified, comprehended or
  interpreted well in terms of both content and form for several reasons. The shape of virtual
  texts may be viewed as awkward, chaotic, and confusing. And the contents of the texts, while
  definitely reflecting African modernity, on the other hand, is determined by subjectively portrayed
  day-to-dayness, freely displaying open mundane experiences in a fragmentary and
  momentary way. Forum poetry — poetic creation, performance, publication, reading, and
  perception altogether — within the virtual space has an explosive effect, which is unpredictable,
  uncontrolled, chaotic and momentary. Moreover, poetic content often makes a strong
  reference to certain immediate and fragmentary environments of African everyday life which
  are most urgent and alive at the very time of creation, performance and perception. Thus,
  capturing virtual texts within this broad context — the context of author/reader interaction, communication and creation — enables one to read both the content and formal properties
  inherent in the genre of web-forum poetry.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 13; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Northern Nigeria
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: digital literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: forum poetry
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: creative writing in cyberspace
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Emergent Poetry of Northern Nigeria within Digital Space
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metadata.value: Article
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