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 the Strong 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
Rose A. Sackeyfio is associate professor at Winston-Salem State
University.
Blessing Diala-Ogamba is professor at Coppin State University.
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*
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