Legacies of Departed African Women Writers

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Resounding Gongs of Fallen Female Heroes

Chioma Carol Opara and Helen O. Chukwuma

Part 1: Affirming the Charismatic Pathfinder: Flora Nwapa



"Flora Nwapa: The One Who Dwells in Wealth"

Anthonia Kalu



Uwa Umunwanyi, Uwa Oma: Flora Nwapa and Women's History and Culture in Efuru and Idu

Akachi Adimora- Ezeigbo



Flora Nwapa, Feminism and the Burden of History

Kemi Wale- Olaitan



Flora Nwapa's Efuru: The Personified Goddess

Anthonia Adadevoh



Forces and Flaws in Flora Nwapa's Efuru and Idu

Perp St. Remy Asiegbu



Part 2: Orality and Rootedness in Culture and Tradition



Wolof Taasu Genre as Narrative Device in Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

Ada Uzoamaka Azodo



Non-Verbalized Communication of True Love in Traditional Dholuo in Grace Ogot's The Promised Land

Eunita Ochola



Validation of Culture: A Re-reading of 'Zulu Sofola's Wedlock of the Gods and King Emene: A Tragedy of Rebellion.

Nkem Okoh

Part 3:Interrogating Identity, Autonomy, and History



Archetypes of the Mother and the Scapegoat in Grace Ogot's Fiction

Onyemaechi Udumukwu



Bessie Head: World Writer from Africa

Mary S. Lederer



Narrating Hybridity: The Synthesis of Tradition and Modernity in Buchi Emecheta's Double Yoke

Solomon Omatsola Azumurana



Depravity and Mental Torture in Nawal El Saadawi's Two Women inOne and Woman at PointZero

Queen Albert and Onyemechi Nwaeke



Resurrecting Women from the Margins of History: Feminist Synergy inSelected Works byAssia Djebar

Rose A. Sackeyfio

Part 4: Confronting Containment with Resistance and Freedom



From Passivity to Defiance: The Figure of Woman in Yvonne Vera's Novels Blessing Diala-Ogamba
The Buchi Emecheta Phenomenon

Austine Amanze Akpuda



Twin Kernels in One Pod: Naming of Nawal and Firdaus in El Saadawi's A Daughter of Isis and Woman at Point Zero

Chinyere Grace Okafor



Women,Tradition and Resistance in Zulu Sofola's Wedlock of the Gods

Irene Isoken Salami-Agunloye



Nadine Gordimer's Multiplex Legacy

Ikeogu Oke

Part 5:Dynamics of Power and Narrative Voice



Language Use in the Discourse of Otherness in Bessie Head's Maru

Omeh Obasi Ngwoke and Okwudiri Anasiudu



Synthesis of Binaries: The Mediating Voice in Mariama Ba's Novels

Chioma Carol Opara

Epilogue: Un Cri de Coeur

Marie Umeh

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• Literatura: história e crítica
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African feminism; African literature; Assia Djebar; Bessie Head; Buchi Emecheta; celebrated writers; contemporary writers; cultural studies; Flora Nwapa; gender complementarity; gender studies; Grace Ogot; Mariama Ba; modernity; Nawal El Saadawi; Otherness; patriarchal culture; sexism; sexist normative patterns; Uwa Oma; Uwa Umunwanyi; Wolof Taasu; women studies; Yvonne Vera; Zulu Sofola