Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2017
Editors:	Rose A. Sackeyfio • Blessing Diala-Ogamba
Contributors:	Bosede Funke Afolayan • Christopher Anyokwu • Chikaodiri Augustus • Jane Bryce • Psalms Emeka Chinaka • Helen O Chukwuma • Louisa Uchumegbunike • Obiageli Okolocha
Dimensions:	237 x 159 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-5932-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	1-4985-5932-8
Barcode:	9781498559324

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