{"product_id":"9798765112076","title":"Subversive Intertextuality in Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl Critiquing and Reimagining Western and Nigerian Metanarratives","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSubversive Intertextuality in Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eCritiquing and Reimagining Western and Nigerian Metanarratives\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDana E. Lawrence\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Comparative Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDana E. Lawrence the ways Helen Oyeyemi employs adaptation and allusion to locate herself and her work within the intersections of British literature, women's literature, Nigerian literature, and Yoruba folk traditions.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLawrence argues that in addition to its place within diasporic literature, \u003ci\u003eThe Icarus Girl \u003c\/i\u003e(2005) belongs in larger conversations about adaptation and intertextuality, women's writing, and Gothic literature. Despite the prevalence and specificity of intertextual references in Oyeyemi's first novel, scholars have not yet examined the significance of its literary influences beyond a few brief mentions of the many allusions to British, American, and Nigerian literature and European and Yoruba mythologies contained within the work\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e?However, none of these studies have engaged in a true comparative analysis that situates Oyeyemi's novel within the various literary traditions that influence its narrative. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSubversive Intertextuality in Helen Oyeyemi's \u003c\/i\u003eThe Icarus Girl seeks to remedy gaps in existing scholarship by putting \u003ci\u003eThe Icarus Girl \u003c\/i\u003ein direct conversation with foundational 19th-century works such as Mary Shelley's \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e, Charlotte Brontë's \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e, Louisa May Alcott's \u003ci\u003eLittle Women\u003c\/i\u003e, and Frances Hodgson Burnett's \u003ci\u003eA Little Princess\u003c\/i\u003e, alongside Nigerian canonical texts like Chinua Achebe's \u003ci\u003eThings Fall Apart\u003c\/i\u003e and Wole Soyinka's \u003ci\u003eA Dance of the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e. This comparative analysis reveals Oyeyemi's deeper engagement with 19th-century women writers, Gothic literature, and postcolonial literary traditions. Lawrence shows that \u003ci\u003eThe Icarus Girl \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the use of adaptation, appropriation, intertextuality, and allusion as rhetorical modes of resistance as it simultaneously admires and talks back to Western and Nigerian canonical texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDana E. Lawrence \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of English at University of South Carolina Lancaster, USA, and is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eAdaptation and Young Adult Novels: Critically Engaging Past and Present\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2020).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e04 February 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9798765112076\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e208\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51223597514892,"sku":"9798765112076","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_eb96bdd5-7b57-47de-b795-3924e326919d.jpg?v=1783078503","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9798765112076","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}