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Author: Marie Umeh
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA much needed collection of essays by leading scholars that analyses the work of Nigeria's most respected woman writer and theorist.
Author: Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780865438781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChinua 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.'
Author: Marie Umeh
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 540
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about Marie Umeh who specializes in Literature of the African World, Emecheta's astronihing achievements in fiction, autobiography, children's literature, and drama will now find the readers they so clearly deserve.
Author: Rose A. Sackeyfio
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2017-11-08
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1498559336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmerging 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.
Author: Sarah Anyang Agbor
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2018-12-17
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1527523675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays poses the problem of the preservation of cultural identities in the present-day global context. The comparative approach of this cultural study shows the universal dimension of the issues raised in the book, highlighting that gender equality, women’s emancipation, ethnicity, religion, tradition, oppression, resistance, modernity and linguistic affinities are recurrent in many contemporary national literatures.
Author: Ada Uzoamaka Azodo
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ambitious and comprehensive volume of essays, edited by two committed scholars, mirrors a collection of insights, analyses and approaches to the works by Ghana's foremost woman writer, who has prevailed for over thirty years on the African literature scene by her sheer tenacity of purpose and the freshness of her writing. Ama Ata Aidoo comes across as a sturdy, well-rounded, dignified and reputable writer of world class, not only in the originality, complexity and sophistication of her thoughts, but also in the diversity of the possibilities in her writing. Students of cultural politics, international relations, womens' studies, history and African studies will find this anthology a compelling resource.
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning
Published: 2016-07-12
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 1410350266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Study Guide for Buchi Emecheta's "The Joys of Motherhood," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Author: Derek Wright
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 802
ISBN-13: 9780865439191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Buchi Emecheta
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780435909727
DOWNLOAD EBOOK...a graceful, touching, ironically titled tale. - John Updike A new edition of her classic novel to coincide with the publication of her other works in the African Writers Series. Nnu Ego is a woman devoted to her children, giving them all her energy, all her worldly possessions, indeed, all her life to them -- with the result that she finds herself friendless and alone in middle age. This story of a young mother's struggles in 1950s Lagos is a powerful commentary on polygamy, patriarchy, and women's changing roles in urban Nigeria.
Author: Buchi Emecheta
Publisher: Not Applicable
Published: 1982-06-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780805281194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDebbie Ogedemgbe joins the army to help her country, but is uncertain whether her English lover, Alan Grey, a military advisor, is concerned with Nigeria or British interests in Africa
