Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sackeyfio, Rose A.
• Diala-Ogamba, Blessing

Description

xxii, 225 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Adimora-Ezeigbo, Akachi
• Sex role in literature
• Women, Black, in literature
• Feminism in literature
• Adimora-Ezeigbo, Akachi > Criticism and interpretation
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Nigerian fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
• Nigerian drama > Women authors > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

Sc E 18-917

ISBN

• 9781498559324
• 1498559328

LCCN

2017033885

OCLC

994220172

Title

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

Publisher

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Sackeyfio, Rose A., editor.

Diala-Ogamba, Blessing, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 18-917