Subtitle from cover. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
In Conversation with Maureen N. Eke, Parts 1 and 2. Sonja Darlington -- Introduction / Maureen Ngozi Eke -- INTERVIEWS. Women and Indigeneous Resistance in Tess Onwueme's Tell It to Women and What Mama Said / Maureen Ngozi Eke -- Chapter 2. Performances of Power, Mimicry and Subversion in Tess Onwueme's Work / Thérèse Migraine-George -- Chapter 3. Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme's The Reign of Wazobia / Kanika Batra -- Chapter 4. Osonye Tess Onwueme's Tell It to Women, or Gender and Sexuality at Crossroads / Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabi -- Chapter 5. Women and Power in Tess Onwueme's The Reign of Wazobia / Irene Isoken Salami-Agunloye -- Chapter 6. Women as Power Brokers of the Earth's Resources: Tess Onwueme's Warnings of Social and Environmental Toxicity / Sonja Darlington -- Chapter 7. When African Drums Turn Talkative: Music and Spectacle as Extensions of Identity in Selected Writings of Osonye Tess Onwueme / Sheri Anderson -- Chapter 8. Identity and Transformative Paths in Tess Onwueme's Tell It to Women and Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen / H. Oby Okolocha -- Chapter 9. Tess Onwueme's Revolt Against Some Feminist Postulations for Women Writers in Tell It to Women and Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen / Onyeka Iwuchukwu -- Chapter 10. Bodies in Motion: Gestures and Performance of Identity in Tess Onwueme's Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen / Maureen Ngozi Eke -- Chapter 11. Performing Africa in America: An Appraisal of the Costumes for The Reign of Wazobia on Eau Claire Stage / Grace Uchechukwu Adinku -- Chapter 12. Feminism and the Meditation of the Mythic in Three Plays by Tess A. Onwueme / Afram Ebeogu -- Chapter 13. We are the Land, We are the Earth, We Are Here to Stay: Women's Worth in Tess Onwueme's Tell It to Women / Delinda Marzette-Stuckey -- Chapter 14. Tess Onwueme's Then She Said It: A Dramatic Paradigm for Critical Consciousness-Raising / Dixie Beadle -- Chapter 15. Walking that Rickety Bridge: Cultural Ambivalence in Tess Onwueme's What Mama Said / Becky Becker -- Chapter 16. The Middle Passage in Reverse: A Semiotics of Ritual Reunification in Tess Onwueme's The Missing Face / Romanus Muoneke -- Chapter 17. Gendering Diaspora, Depoliticizing Homeland: The Question of Restoration and Wholeness in Osonye Tess Onwueme's The Missing Face / Otymeyin Agbajoh-Laoye -- Chapter 18. Staging the Dilemma of the Female Husband: Igbo Empowerment or Igbo Oppression in Tess Onwueme's The Broken Calabash / Andrea J. Nouryeh -- Chapter 19. Political Satire in Tess Onwueme's Play No Vacancy / Touria Khannous -- Chapter 20. Stylistics and Language Aesthetics in Tess Onwueme's A Hen Too Soon / Miriam Stephen Inegbe -- Chapter 21. The Artist and the Nation: A Reflection on Onwueme's Mirror for Campus / Oluwafunminiyi Mabawonku and David Ekanem Udoinwang -- Chapter 22. Clash of Wills: Parental Subjugation and Class Discrimination in Tess Onwueme's The Artist's Homecoming / Benedict Binebai -- Chapter 23. Melding Igbo Explanatory Folktale and the Struggle against Global Inequities: Reading Tess Onwueme's Why the Elephant Has No Butt as Literature of the Environment / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo -- Chapter 24. "The World Is a Masquerade Dancing:" The Papers of Tess Osonye Onwueme / Gregory J. Kocken -- KEYNOTE ADDRESSES. Tess Onwueme and the Dramatic March to Freedom in the Niger Delta / Godini G. Darah -- Contextualizing Tess Onwueme's Distinguished Literary Accomplishments / Sonja Darlington -- INTERVIEWS. In Conversation with Maureen N. Eke, Parts 1 and 2.
Summary:
The volume contains essays and a number of interviews with Tess Osonye Onwueme. The essays address a wide range of themes on Tess Osonye Onwueme's works. These essays reflect a diversity of theoretical and critical approaches from feminism, Black feminism/womanism, performance studies, to linguistics, and ecocriticism. These essays also represent the perspectives of international scholars located in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.