Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216219781
• Artikelnr.: 74398023

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 theStrong 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