Writing contemporary Nigeria
Subtitle: how Sefi Atta illuminates African culture and tradition
By: edited by Walter P. Collins, III
Series: Cambria African studies series; Cambria African studies series
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Amherst, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781604979091
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Characters; Women; In literature; Literature and society; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sisterhood, womanhood and rites of passage --; title: Of motherhood, marriage, and professionals : trans-generational emancipation of Nigerian women in Sefi Atta's novels  -- Marlene de la Cruz-Guzmán; title: Recasting sisterhood and its ambiguities in Sefi Atta's Everything good will come and Swallow  -- Rose Sackeyfio; title: Notions of motion : rites of passage in Everything good will come  -- Harry Olufunwa; title: Sefi Atta's voice, vision and social vision in Everything good will come  -- Mary Kolawole; title: The city in the fiction of Sefi Atta --; title: Female alter-native publics, imaginations, and cityness in Sefi Atta's Lagos novels  -- Rita Nnodim; title: Images and voices of Lagos in Sefi Atta's novels  -- Bernard Oniwe; title: The influence of Lagos on women in Sefi Atta's Everything good will come  -- Elizabeth Olaoye; title: Dark aspects of Sefi Atta's works --; title: "Drug mules" not "queen-pins" : trafficking in Sefi Atta's Swallow and The last trip  -- Shalini Nadaswaran; title: Dictatorship and alienation : a reading of Sefi Atta's Everything good will come  -- Juliet Tenshak; title: Sefi Atta's literature in application --; title: Teaching the composition student self-defense : Sefi Atta's Everything good will come as a bildungsroman masking lesson  -- Michelle Nichols-Wright; title: An interview with Sefi Atta -- Walter Collins.