Open AccessMultiple Strokes
Author(s) -
Obododimma Oha
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
portal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.125
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 1449-2490
DOI - 10.5130/portal.v5i2.884
Subject(s) - sarcasm , reading (process) , politics , poetry , capital punishment , literature , aesthetics , punishment (psychology) , psychology , art , linguistics , irony , philosophy , social psychology , law , political science , criminology
This poem playfully addresses the slippery nature of linguistic signification, employing humour and sarcasm in presenting a wide range of human experience. It ironical twists -- and "strokes" (read ambiguously as both a giving a punishment and erotic pleasuring) -- move from the naming of location through international discourse of capital to the crumbling relationships between nation states. It reading of the signs of language is tied to the unease and fracture in cultural and political experience