Emerging perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo / edited by Rose A. Sackeyfio and Blessing Diala-Ogamba.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sackeyfio, Rose A., editor.

Diala-Ogamba, Blessing, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adimora-Ezeigbo, Akachi--Criticism and interpretation.

Adimora-Ezeigbo, Akachi.

Feminism in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xxii, 225 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]

Summary:

Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo is a collection of fifteen 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, a 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 twenty-first 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Rose A. Sackeyfio

Contextualizing Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's snail-sense theory as Africa's quintessential archetype of feminism / Psalms Chinaka

What has a snail got to do with it? Ezeigbo's snail-sense feminism as a critical reading tool for her two plays / Bosede F. Afolayan

"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 / Obiageli Okolocha

Negotiating spaces, crossing borders: public/private spheres in Adimora-Ezeigbo's The last of the strong ones / Lalade Omolola

Telling herstories: (re) creating the strong ones in Nigerian women's writing / Rose A. Sackeyfio

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 / Louisa Egbunike

You are not a woman: barrenness and rejection in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's The last of the strong ones / Irene Isoken Salami-Agunloye

Sisters in the struggle: women's resistance in Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo's Trafficked and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters Street / Blessing Diala-Ogamba

Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo: her significance as poet / Christopher Anyoku

Masquerading the woman in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Heart songs / Ini Uko

The development and significance of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's poetry / Tanure Ojaide

From history to story: love and loss in Roses and bullets / Patrick Oloko

Roses and bullets: intimate violence in the Biafran heartland / Jane Bryce

Love under seige: nuptial contradictions in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Roses and bullets and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yellow sun / Chikaodiri Augustus

Pellets of pain: the changing times in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Roses and bullets / Chioma Opara

Appendix I. Interview with Akachi-Adimora Ezeigbo / Rose A. Sackeyfio

Appendix II: Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo's biography

Appendix III: CV of Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Emerging perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo.

ISBN:

9781498559324

1498559328

OCLC:

994220172