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.
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ISBN
9781498559331
Publisert
2018
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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