Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Av Rose A. Sackeyfio, Blessing Diala-Ogamba

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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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Utgivningsdatum2017-11-08
Mått159 x 237 x 22 mm
Vikt494 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498559324

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Chapter 1. Contextualizing Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Snail-Sense Theory as Africa’s Quintessential Archetype of FeminismChapter 2. What Has a Snail Got to Do with It? Ezeigbo’s Snail-Sense Feminism as A Critical Reading Tool for Her Two PlaysChapter 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 IzungaChapter 4. Negotiating Spaces, Crossing Borders: Public/Private Spheres in Adimora-Ezeigbo’s The Last of the Strong OnesChapter 5. Telling Herstories: (Re) Creating the Strong Ones in Nigerian Women’s WritingChapter 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 ApartChapter 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 StreetChapter 9. Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo: Her Significance as PoetChapter 10. Masquerading the Woman in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Heart SongsChapter 11. The Development and Significance of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s PoetryChapter 12. From History to Story: Love and Loss in Roses and BulletsChapter 13. Roses and Bullets: Intimate Violence in the Biafran HeartlandChapter 14. Love Under Seige: Nuptial Contradictions in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Roses and Bullets and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow SunChapter 15. Pellets of Pain: The Changing Times in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Roses and Bullets

At last, here comes a critical book that does service to the literary oeuvre of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo. With Emerging Perspectives, edited by Rose Sackeyfio and Blessing Diala-Ogamba, the contributors have, indeed, succeeded in placing another African female writer among the pantheon of celebrated women writers. Certainly, and as the essays in this collection demonstrate, the future of African literary criticism promises more critical robustness enriched by the creative works of African women as Adimora-Ezeigbo. It anticipates greater engagement with quintessential issues surrounding women’s empowerment and transcendence over growing social challenges.