Introduction: The Resounding Gongs of Fallen Female Heroes / Chioma Carol Opara and Helen O. Chukwuma -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 in One and -- Woman at Point Zero / Queen Albert and Onyemechi Nwaeke -- Resurrecting Women from the Margins of History: Feminist Synergy in Selected Works by Assia Djebar / Rose A. Sackeyfio -- 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 -- 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.
Summary:
"Legacies of Passed African Writers analyzes and celebrates the resounding contributions of ten deceased African female writers of contemporary African literature and feminist scholarship, examining the ideologies, thematic concerns, and stylistic devices which constitute the fabrics of the legacies left by these iconic pacesetters"-- Provided by publisher.
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