Zeb Sihouette - Okafor, Chinyere Grace
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In her capacity as a writer in the Diaspora, Okafor graphically delineates the immigrant experience lived by a black woman, Zeb, who seeks refuge in the United States, after having been exiled by a dictatorial Nigerian Government as a result of her militant human rights activities. Assailed with the realities of her lowly immigrant status as well as the spectres of ethnicity, gender inequity and racism, she valiantly navigates through the clogs of discrimination, oppression and deprivation. She is constrained by the brute force of the vicissitudes of life to fall from grace, in the quest for a new, secure identity procured with the Green Card.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
In her capacity as a writer in the Diaspora, Okafor graphically delineates the immigrant experience lived by a black woman, Zeb, who seeks refuge in the United States, after having been exiled by a dictatorial Nigerian Government as a result of her militant human rights activities. Assailed with the realities of her lowly immigrant status as well as the spectres of ethnicity, gender inequity and racism, she valiantly navigates through the clogs of discrimination, oppression and deprivation. She is constrained by the brute force of the vicissitudes of life to fall from grace, in the quest for a new, secure identity procured with the Green Card.
Autorenporträt
Chinyere Grace Okafor, poet, playwright, and fiction writer teaches at the Department of Womens Studies and Religion, Wichita State University. An alumnus of University of Sussex (Brighton, UK), University College (Cardiff, UK), and University of Nigeria, (Nsukka, Nigeria), she did postdoctoral work on gender politics and poetics of Masking at Cornell University. Her research is interdisciplinary involving transnational gender, literature and theater, diversity education and mask communication. Dr Okafor has authored an impressive body of literary works in various genres over the last couple of years. Among her publications are He Wants To Marry Me Again and other Stories, The Lion and The Iroko (a play), From Earths Bed Chamber (poems), Campus Palavar and Other Plays, and The New Toyi Toyi. She has also been widely published in journals and magazines.