Title: Achebe's women : imagism and power /
Authors: Chukwuma, Helen.
Publisher: Africa World Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Achebe, Chinua Characters Women.; Achebe, Chinua Political and social views.; Women in literature; Sex role in literature; Patriarchy in literature.
Contents: Womanhood in Igbo cosmology : intersections in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Chinyere Okafor -- And the truth is made manifest : the strong ones behind Okonkwo / Chioma Opara -- Female privilege and power in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart : the role and impact of the priestess Chielo as agent of Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and Vales / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo -- Children of the home : Ezinma, Beauty to Behold / Blessing Diala-Ogamba -- Alienated histories : mapping landscapes of women's participation and autonomy in Achebe's Things fall apart and Anthills of the savannah / Anthonia C. Kalu -- Love and motherhood in Chinua Achebe's novels / Helen Chukwuma -- Metamorphosing female characters in select Achebe novels : women as signposts / Angela M. Fubara -- Revalorizing women's agency : motherhood in Anthills of the Savannah / Caroline Mbonu -- Power play and gendered spaces in Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the savannah / Uzoechi Nwagbara --^ Feminist stance and language : a focus on Beatrice in Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the savannah / Margaret Fafa Nutsukpo -- The power to name : the new image of African womanhood in Achebe's Anthills of the savannah / Irene Salami-Agunloye -- Violence against Achebe's women : Okonkwo and "the gun that never shot" / Onyemaechi Udumukwu -- The power of naming : a case of Beatrice Nwanyibuife in Anthills of the savannah / Caroline Mbonu -- Girls at war : Achebe's short stories / Patricia Emenyonu -- The passive ones : Chinua Achebe's Arrow of god / Chinyelu Ojukwu -- Matriarchal preeminence in a patriarchal world : women as the backbone of traditional African society / Laura Miller -- Individualism and the pull of tradition in Things fall apart and The joys of motherhood / Paula T. Wingard -- Portrayal of womanhood in Achebe's Things fall apart and Ezeigbo's The last of the strong ones / Blessing Diala-Ogamba --^ From the master craftsman himself : interviews and conversations with Chinua Achebe on women's portraiture in his novels / Christine Ohale -- Epilogue : fifty years hence.