%0 Journal Article
%T Telling the Nation: A Postmodernist Reading of Tanure Ojaide¡¯s God¡¯s Medicine-Men and Other Stories
%A Henri Oripeloye
%J Advances in Literary Study
%P 95-99
%@ 2327-4050
%D 2014
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/als.2014.24016
%X Postmodernist reasoning signifies a move from traditional viewpoint to an accelerated technological terrain, the implication of this diversion is noticeable in the eclectic nature of life in contemporary society; all things become a continual flickering without any recognizable or perpetual presence. As a literary concept, postmodernism fashions the problematic landscape for the appreciation of the disordered nature of the world as it focuses on the dismantling of traditional values and affirmation of a fragmented society. Postmodernism, with its subtle emphasis on capitalism, has greatly exacerbated the post-colonial tendencies in Tanure Ojaide¡¯s God¡¯s Medicine-Men and Other Stories as money becomes a recurrent motif and a chief signifier. The stories underpin the overarching effect of cultural materialism, individuals and the society as everyone is caught in its web; these stories could also be read as the author¡¯s depiction of a society that is going through a cultural flux.
%K Postmodernism
%K Cultural Values
%K Nation
%K Short Stories
%K Tanure Ojaide
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51074