EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF CREATIVITY WRITING SKILL ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THE STUDENTS OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDENTS (200 LEVEL)
Abstract
ABSTRACT
This research investigates resistance to military subjectivity in Helon Habila’s
Waiting for an Angel. Anchored in postcolonial theory and Foucauldian notions of
power and subjectivity, the study adopts a qualitative textual analysis to explore how
the novel portrays intellectual, psychological, and communal forms of resistance
under Nigeria’s military dictatorship in the 1990s.
The findings reveal that resistance in the novel manifests in diverse ways: through
intellectual writing and journalism, through silence, memory, and survival, and
through collective acts of defiance in communities. The fragmented narrative
structure, symbolism, and irony are used by Habila as counter-discursive strategies
to challenge authoritarian attempts at silencing. The study concludes that literature
functions both as archive and as weapon: preserving suppressed voices while also
imagining alternative futures.
Keywords: Resistance, Military Subjectivity, Postcolonialism, Helon Habila,
Nigerian Literature
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