Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo

Herausgeber: Diala-Ogamba, Blessing; Sackeyfio, Rose A.

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Produktbeschreibung

This bookexamines the fiction, poetry, drama, and feminist theory of Nigerian writer Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo. The bookexpands post-colonial discourse to illuminate the ways in which Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's literary works explore conventional as well as contemporary themes about women's role and status in Nigerian society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9781498559324
• ISBN-10: 1498559328
• Artikelnr.: 48895445

Autorenporträt

Edited by Rose A. Sackeyfio and Blessing Diala-Ogamba - Contributions by Bosede Funke Afolayan; Christopher Anyokwu; Chikaodiri Augustus; Jane Bryce; Psalms Emeka Chinaka; Helen O. Chukwuma; Louisa UchumEgbunike; Obiageli Okolocha; Patrick Oloko; Omolola

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Contextualizing Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Snail-Sense Theory as
Africa's Quintessential Archetype of Feminism Chapter 2. What Has a Snail
Got to Do with It? Ezeigbo's Snail-Sense Feminism as A Critical Reading
Tool for Her Two Plays Chapter 3. "Wetin You Fit Do?" Lessons of Resistance
and Self-Assertion in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Hands That Crush Stone,
Barmaid and The Witches of Izunga Chapter 4. Negotiating Spaces, Crossing
Borders: Public/Private Spheres in Adimora-Ezeigbo's The Last of the Strong
Ones Chapter 5. Telling Herstories: (Re) Creating the Strong Ones in
Nigerian Women's Writing Chapter 6. On Intertextual Conversations: Images
of the Igbo World in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's The Last of the Strong Ones
and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Chapter 7. You are Not a Woman:
Barrenness and Rejection in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's The Last of the Strong
Ones Chapter 8. Sisters in the Struggle: Women's Resistance in Akachi
Adimora Ezeigbo's Trafficked and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters Street
Chapter 9. Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo: Her Significance as Poet Chapter 10.
Masquerading the Woman in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Heart Songs Chapter 11.
The Development and Significance of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Poetry Chapter
12. From History to Story: Love and Loss in Roses and Bullets Chapter 13.
Roses and Bullets: Intimate Violence in the Biafran Heartland Chapter 14.
Love Under Seige: Nuptial Contradictions in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Roses
and Bullets and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun Chapter 15.
Pellets of Pain: The Changing Times in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Roses and
Bullets