Research Catalog

Title

Gender and identity in the works of Osonye Tess Onwueme / Iniobong I. Uko.

Author

Uko, Iniobong I.

Publication

Trenton NJ : Africa World Press, c2004.

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Details

Description

xxii, 306 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Feminism and literature > Nigeria
• Group identity in literature
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Nigeria > In literature
• Onwueme, Osonye Tess > Criticism and interpretation
• Sex role in literature
• Women and literature > Nigeria
• Women in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-296) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The phenomenal sacred space -- Conceptualizing gender and identity in select Black literary studies -- Crevices on the wall : identifying feminisms in Tell it to women and Shakara dance-hall queen -- Old prejudices and new realities in A hen too soon, The artist's homecoming, and The broken calabash -- Visions of empowerment and social change in Parables for a season, The reign of Wazobia, Ban empty ban, and A scent of onion -- The imperatives of diasporic unities and identities in Legacies, The missing face, and Riot in heaven -- Dynamics of survival in Cattle egret versus Nama, Mirror for campus, The desert encroaches, and Then she said it -- A return to tradition : Why the elephant has no butt, an allegorical novel -- Towards a new female consciousness.

ISBN

• 1592212735 (cloth)
• 1592212743 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004008327

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library