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Legacies of Passed African Women Writers: Matrix of Creativity and
Power proffers varied perspectives of the invaluable contributions
of ten deceased African writers from all across Africa who have
cleared the path to a vibrant African feminist arena. The dynamics
of change gleaned from both their textual and contextual concerns
unarguably set the pace for contemporary African women writers who
have striven to follow in the footsteps of their literary mothers
as well as their oral foremothers. This book, edited by Helen
Chukwuma and Chioma Carol Opara, shows the collective testament of
ample creativity and power generated by these departed heroes:
Flora Nwapa, Mariama Ba, Grace Ogot, Zulu Sofola, Bessie Head,
Buchi Emecheta, Nawal El Saadawi, Assia Djebar, Yvonne Vera, and
Nadine Gordimer. These chapters revolve around the positive impact
of the celebrated writers on creative writing, theoretical
formulations, and socio-cultural change. The contributors argue
that these corpus of works have illuminated creativity rooted in
power, vision, and freedom.
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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