Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo is a collection of 15 critical essays that highlights the literary contributions of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo as one of Nigeria's leading female writers. The book includes a literary biography, professional profile, and an interview with professor Adimora-Ezeigbo that offers valuable insight into her life and works. Contributing scholars provide critical and theoretical perspectives on Adimora-Ezeigbo's ouvre that represents a postcolonial lens to interpret the African world. Emerging Perspectives contextualizes Adimora-Ezeigbo's works of fiction, poetry, and drama within African, Nigerian, and Women's literary tradition. This collection builds upon critical and theoretical scholarship on leading African writers whose works comprise a dynamic and compelling genre of African writing that spans the post-independence era into the 21st century. The essays examine themes from Adimora-Ezeigbo's writing such as patriarchy, feminism, war, cultural traditions, and contemporary issues in Nigerian society such as trafficking, and many of the social, economic, and political challenges to Nigeria's development as a modern nation state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781498559324
• ISBN-10: 1498559328
• Artikelnr.: 48895445

Autorenporträt

Rose A. Sackeyfio is associate professor at Winston-Salem State University. Blessing Diala-Ogamba is professor at Coppin State University.

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