Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo

Rose A. Sackeyfio (Curatore)

Blessing Diala-Ogamba (Curatore)

Lexington Books, 2017

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.

• Curatore: Rose A. Sackeyfio, Blessing Diala-Ogamba
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Anno: 2017
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 248 p.
• Dimensioni: 237 x 159 mm
• Peso: 494 gr.
• EAN: 9781498559324

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