Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, African
| Author: | Bosede Funke Afolayan, Christopher Anyokwu, Chikaodiri Augustus, Jane Bryce, Psalms Emeka Chinaka, Helen Chukwuma, Louisa UchumEgbunike, Obiageli Okolocha, Patrick Oloko, Omolola A. Ladele, Chioma Opara, Irene Salami-Agunloye, Iniobong I. Uko | ISBN: | 9781498559331 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books | Publication: | November 8, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Bosede Funke Afolayan, Christopher Anyokwu, Chikaodiri Augustus, Jane Bryce, Psalms Emeka Chinaka, Helen Chukwuma, Louisa UchumEgbunike, Obiageli Okolocha, Patrick Oloko, Omolola A. Ladele, Chioma Opara, Irene Salami-Agunloye, Iniobong I. Uko |
| ISBN: | 9781498559331 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Publication: | November 8, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
