| Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo Contributor(s): Sackeyfio, Rose A. (Editor), Diala-Ogamba, Blessing (Editor), Afolayan, Bosede Funke (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1498559328 ISBN-13: 9781498559324 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $115.83 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | African - Literary Criticism | Modern - General |
| Dewey: 823.914 |
| LCCN: 2017033885 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 22.7" W x 9.1" (1.05 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |