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Emerging Perspectives on Flora Nwapa

Author : Marie Umeh
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Emerging Perspectives on Flora Nwapa written by Marie Umeh and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first anthology devoted to the oeuvres of Africa's first internationally recognized female writer. Emerging Perspectives on Flora Nwapa reflects the scope and diversity of Nwapa's poetics, as contributions by today's leading Africanist scholars -- Julie Agabasiere, Ifi Amadiume, Susan Arndt, Ada Azodo, Naana Banyiwa Horne, Brenda F. Berrian, Jane Bryce, Akachi Ezeigbo, Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Nina Mba, Sabine Jell-Bahlsen, Mary E. Modupe-Kolawole, Teresa U. Njoku, Chimalum Nwankwo, Molara Ogundipe-Leslie, Obododimma Oha, Tess Onwueme, Florence Stratton, and Gay Wilentz -- subject the creative corpus of the "Mother of African Women's Literature" to serious scrutiny. This book is a mine of critical and theoretical insights on the author's complete works, most of which are now available in the United States through Africa World Press and Heinemann Educational Books, and serves as an essential guide to the writer's gender-specific concerns. This remarkable collection concludes with a transcript of Flora Nwapa's 1992 interview with Marie Umeh, conducted during the author's last tour of the United States; a chronology of Nwapa's life, works, and distinguished awards; an exhibition of private photographs, courtesy of her son Uzoma Nwakuche and collegue Nina Mba; as well as a detailed bibliography of works by and about Flora Nwapa. Students and scholars of African literature, anthropology, history, law, medicine, philosophy, religion, sociology, psychology, and women's studies will find in this book a full and fitting tribute to the shrewd, ubiquitous market women, the energetic female farmers, the sagacious wives and mothers, and the astute women chiefs and priestesses who found their voice, theirvalidation, and their vindication in Nigeria's foremost female writer -- Flora Nwapa!

Emerging Perspectives on Chinua Achebe

Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865438781
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Emerging Perspectives on Chinua Achebe written by Ernest Emenyo̲nu and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinua Achebe's influence on contemporary African literature is as much in evidence in his art of the novel as his theory of African literature and literary criticism. ISINKA (Igbo term for artistic purpose') establishes Achebe's legacy as a literary theorist and critic. In these essays scholars from around the globe assess and establish how much Achebe's extra-fictional ideas about African literature and literature in general are justified in his own creative works.'

Emerging Perspectives on Dambudzo Marechera

Author : A. J. Chennells
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865436459
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Emerging Perspectives on Dambudzo Marechera written by A. J. Chennells and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarded by some as mad and by others as a genius, Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera is today, ten years after his death, considered to be one of the most innovative writers that Africa has produced. This new book is a collection of critical essays devoted entirely to Marechera's work and includes contributions from academics in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Italy, Nigeria, Germany and the United Kingdom who show the complexity and variety of responses that Marechera's writing evokes.

Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo

Author : Rose A. Sackeyfio
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498559336
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo written by Rose A. Sackeyfio and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Efuru

Author : Flora Nwapa
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478613270
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Efuru written by Flora Nwapa and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appearing in 1966, Efuru was the first internationally published book, in English, by a Nigerian woman. Flora Nwapa (1931–1993) sets her story in a small village in colonial West Africa as she describes the youth, marriage, motherhood, and eventual personal epiphany of a young woman in rural Nigeria. The respected and beautiful protagonist, an independent-minded Ibo woman named Efuru, wishes to be a mother. Her eventual tragedy is that she is not able to marry or raise children successfully. Alone and childless, Efuru realizes she surely must have a higher calling and goes to the lake goddess of her tribe, Uhamiri, to discover the path she must follow. The work, a rich exploration of Nigerian village life and values, offers a realistic picture of gender issues in a patriarchal society as well as the struggles of a nation exploited by colonialism.

The Lake Goddess

Author : Flora Nwapa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781739276706
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Lake Goddess written by Flora Nwapa and published by . This book was released on 2023-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lake Goddess came to be Flora Nwapa's last novel, yet possibly her most important one, as it restores African culture and spirituality. "Nwapa's message is clear: she-Ona/Ogbuide/woman-may have many children, but she also independently succeeds in her own life, and she is a source of healing and inspiration to all human beings suffering from the ills and madness of modern society worldwide. The goddess whom Nwapa invoked finally reemerges in her original glory in The Lake Goddess to brighten women's path. Her powers and mysteries shine, once again, despite the onslaught of foreign powers and their religions, when Nwapa accounts for the destructive forces of globalization and for attempts to push Uhammiri's children into the abyss of derangement, to rob the deity of her benevolence, and to deny her people both children and wealth. Yet, when the lake goddess finally appears with her image fully restored in Nwapa's last novel, the messenger, who invoked her, has left the land, crossed the river, and joined her ancestors to live on.

Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah

Author : Derek Wright
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865439191
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah written by Derek Wright and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first critical anthology of its kind, this is an in-depth look at Somalia's internationally acclaimed and award-winning novelist, Farah - one of Africa's most multilingual and multi-literal writers. Although since his exile in 1974 he has been influenced by many cultural trends from around the world, his writing is still very firmly rooted in the African continent which he has made his base since 1981.

Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender

Author : Florence Stratton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000158772
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender written by Florence Stratton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of colonialism and race on the development of African literature has been the subject of a number of studies. The effect of patriarchy and gender, however, and indeed the contributions of African women, have up until now been largely ignored by the critics. Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender is the first extensive account of African literature from a feminist perspective. In this first radical and exciting work Florence Stratton outlines the features of an emerging female tradition in African fiction. A chapter is dedicated to each to the works of four women writers: Grace Ogot, Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta and Mariama Ba. In addition she provides challenging new readings of canonical male authors such as Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiongo'o and Wole Soyinka. Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender thus provides the first truly comprehensive definition of the current literary tradition in Africa.

Idu

Author : Flora Nwapa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781838221539
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Idu written by Flora Nwapa and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What we are all praying for is children. What else do we want if we have children?' These two sentences from Idu contain the basic theme of this novel set in a rural Nigerian community where the life of the individual is woven into that of the community as a whole. Idu, the protagonist, faces the challenge of infertility, leading her husband Adiewere to take a second wife. Eventually, Idu gives birth to a son named Ijoma, but it takes four years before she becomes pregnant again. However, tragedy strikes as Adiewere mysteriously dies before the arrival of their second child. Defying societal norms, Idu rejects the idea of marrying her husband's brother and instead chooses to join her husband in the afterlife, showcasing that children alone do not define her ultimate desires in life. Idu stands as a testament to Nwapa's commitment to portraying the lives and struggles of African women in the face of societal pressures.

Women's Studies Quarterly (97:3-4)

Author : Tuzyline Jita Allan
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 9781558611696
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Women's Studies Quarterly (97:3-4) written by Tuzyline Jita Allan and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative, creative, and groundbreaking original literary essays about an important emerging area of study.

Legacies of Departed African Women Writers

Author : Helen O. Chukwuma
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666914665
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Legacies of Departed African Women Writers written by Helen O. Chukwuma and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legacies of Departed 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 corpuses of works have illuminated creativity rooted in power, vision, and freedom.

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Author : Eugene Benson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134468474
Total Pages : 2597 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English written by Eugene Benson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 2597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Colonial Literatures in English, together with English Literature and American Literature, form one of the three major groupings of literature in English, and, as such, are widely studied around the world. Their significance derives from the richness and variety of experience which they reflect. In three volumes, this Encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.

Long Drums & Cannons

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888643322
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Long Drums & Cannons written by Margaret Laurence and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up-to-date biographies with a list of works for each of the writers, detailed annotations to the original text and a glossary complete this edition."--BOOK JACKET.

Citizenship in Motion

Author : Hazama, Itsuhiro
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 995655068X
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Citizenship in Motion written by Hazama, Itsuhiro and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropological reflections on citizenship focus on themes such as politics, ethnicity and state management. Present day scholarship on citizenship tends to problematise, unsettle and contest often taken-for- granted conventional connotations and associations of citizenship with imagined culturally bounded political communities of rigidly controlled borders. This book, the result of two years of research conducted by South African and Japanese scholars within the framework of a bilateral project on citizenship in the 21st century, contributes to such ongoing efforts at rethinking citizenship globally, and as informed by experiences in Africa and Japan in particular. Central to the essays in this book is the concept of flexible citizenship, predicated on a recognition of the histories of mobility of people and cultures, and of the shaping and reshaping of places and spaces, and ideas of being and belonging in the process. The book elucidates the contingency of political membership, relationship between everyday practices and political membership, and how citizenship is the mechanism for claiming and denying rights to various political communities. ‘Self’ requires ‘others’ to construct itself, a reality that is subject to renegotiation as one continues to encounter others in a world characterised by myriad forms of interconnecting mobilities, both global and local. Citizenship is thus to be understood within a complex of power relationships that include ones formed by laws and economic regimes on a local scale and beyond. Citizenship in Africa, Japan and, indeed, everywhere is best explored productively as lying between the open-ended possibilities and tensions interconnecting the global and local.

African Possibilities

Author : Ifi Amadiume
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350333824
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book African Possibilities written by Ifi Amadiume and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this latest book by the award-winning author of the hugely influential Male Daughters, Female Husbands, Ifi Amadiume propels gender relations beyond dichotomies and discriminations, and towards a power-sharing argument in discourse, contestation and resistance. Representing the culmination of over 40 years of ground-breaking work on notions of matriarchy at the intersection of the Igbo-African universe and the Western capitalist reality, Amadiume sets forth a blueprint for a bold new matriarchitarianism, critiquing all forms of social injustice with a shared matriarchal-relational humanism. In each chapter of the book, Amadiume applies these principles to a dazzling array of subjects: from religious leadership, kinship and family relations, to sexuality, creative writing and matters of conscience in race, class and gender. African Possibilities explodes our notions of matriarchy into original and compelling arguments, and offers a radical alternative approach to the world's entrenched injustices.

Sustainable Education and Development

Author : Joseph N. Mojekwu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030688364
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Education and Development written by Joseph N. Mojekwu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents papers from the 9th Applied Research Conference in Africa (ARCA), showcasing the latest research on sustainable education and development. The conference is focused on applied research discussion and its dissemination, developing understanding about the role of research and researchers in the development of the continent. ARCA gathers papers which explain how key education is to transforming lives, eradicating poverty and driving sustainable development in Africa. Presenting high quality research about developing economies, construction, education and sustainability, this proceedings will be of interest to academics, postgraduate students, and industry professionals.

Torn Apart

Author : Francoise UGOCHUKWU
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1912234289
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Torn Apart written by Francoise UGOCHUKWU and published by Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970 (also known as the Biafran War) has been described as a 'forgotten war'. Yet it led to the birth of the NGO Doctors without Borders / Medecins sans frontieres and equipped journalists with the intercultural skills they later used in their coverage of other African conflicts. The Biafran conflict equally ended up strengthening the special relationship between France and Nigeria. From 1970 in particular, the Nigerian education sector was taken up with a wave of francophilia, which boosted the teaching of French in Language programmes at the secondary school level. The Civil War, which ravaged the South-Eastern part of the federation, was, above all, a collective experience which inspired poets, novelists and playwrights - Achebe, Soyinka, Okigbo, Saro-Wiwa, Okpewho, Adichie and others, while bringing about a massive religious revival which affected the whole region. The war mobilised politicians and NGOs, it changed the country and brought it into the limelight. This book reveals, through the study of oral genres, radio bulletins and the impact of the conflict on literature and the Web, the human history of the war, the role played by the media and the deep scar the conflict left on the bodies and minds of survivors.