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Writing contemporary Nigeria : how Sefi Atta illuminates African culture and tradition / edited by Walter P. Collins, III.
Van Pelt Library PS3601.T78 Z95 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambria African studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atta, Sefi--Criticism and interpretation.
- Atta, Sefi.
- Atta, Sefi--Characters--Women.
- Literature and society.
- History.
- Nigeria--In literature.
- Nigeria.
- Literature and society--Nigeria--History--21st century.
- Literature.
- Women in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 221 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, New York : Cambria Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Sisterhood, womanhood and rites of passage
- Of motherhood, marriage, and professionals : trans-generational emancipation of Nigerian women in Sefi Atta's novels / Marlene de la Cruz-Guzmán
- Recasting sisterhood and its ambiguities in Sefi Atta's Everything good will come and Swallow / Rose Sackeyfio
- Notions of motion : rites of passage in Everything good will come / Harry Olufunwa
- Sefi Atta's voice, vision and social vision in Everything good will come / Mary Kolawole
- The city in the fiction of Sefi Atta
- Female alter-native publics, imaginations, and cityness in Sefi Atta's Lagos novels / Rita Nnodim
- Images and voices of Lagos in Sefi Atta's novels / Bernard Oniwe
- The influence of Lagos on women in Sefi Atta's Everything good will come / Elizabeth Olaoye
- Dark aspects of Sefi Atta's works
- "Drug mules" not "queen-pins" : trafficking in Sefi Atta's Swallow and The last trip / Shalini Nadaswaran
- Dictatorship and alienation : a reading of Sefi Atta's Everything good will come / Juliet Tenshak
- Sefi Atta's literature in application
- Teaching the composition student self-defense : Sefi Atta's Everything good will come as a bildungsroman masking lesson / Michelle Nichols-Wright
- An interview with Sefi Atta / Walter Collins.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781604979091
- 1604979097
- OCLC:
- 911618298
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