Lexington Books
Pages: 248
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4985-5932-4 • Hardback • November 2017 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-4985-5933-1 • eBook • November 2017 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
Rose A. Sackeyfio is associate professor at Winston-Salem State University.
Blessing Diala-Ogamba is professor at Coppin State University.
Chapter 1. Contextualizing Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Snail-Sense Theory as Africa’s Quintessential Archetype of Feminism
Chapter 2. What Has a Snail Got to Do with It? Ezeigbo’s Snail-Sense Feminism as A Critical Reading Tool for Her Two Plays
Chapter 3. “Wetin You Fit Do?” Lessons of Resistance and Self-Assertion in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Hands That Crush Stone, Barmaid and The Witches of Izunga
Chapter 4. Negotiating Spaces, Crossing Borders: Public/Private Spheres in Adimora-Ezeigbo’s The Last of the Strong Ones
Chapter 5. Telling Herstories: (Re) Creating the Strong Ones in Nigerian Women’s Writing
Chapter 6. On Intertextual Conversations: Images of the Igbo World in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s The Last of the Strong Ones and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
Chapter 7. You are Not a Woman: Barrenness and Rejection in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s The Last of theStrong Ones
Chapter 8. Sisters in the Struggle: Women’s Resistance in Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo’s Trafficked and Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters Street
Chapter 9. Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo: Her Significance as Poet
Chapter 10. Masquerading the Woman in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Heart Songs
Chapter 11. The Development and Significance of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Poetry
Chapter 12. From History to Story: Love and Loss in Roses and Bullets
Chapter 13. Roses and Bullets: Intimate Violence in the Biafran Heartland
Chapter 14. Love Under Seige: Nuptial Contradictions in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Roses and Bullets and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun
Chapter 15. Pellets of Pain: The Changing Times in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Roses and Bullets
At last, here comes a critical book that does service to the literary oeuvre of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo. With Emerging Perspectives, edited by Rose Sackeyfio and Blessing Diala-Ogamba, the contributors have, indeed, succeeded in placing another African female writer among the pantheon of celebrated women writers. Certainly, and as the essays in this collection demonstrate, the future of African literary criticism promises more critical robustness enriched by the creative works of African women as Adimora-Ezeigbo. It anticipates greater engagement with quintessential issues surrounding women’s empowerment and transcendence over growing social challenges.
— Pauline Uwakweh, North Carolina A&T State University