Achebe's women
Subtitle: imagism and power
By: edited by Helen Chukwuma
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Trenton NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781592218691; 9781592218707
Subjects: Patriarchy in literature; Characters; Women in literature; Women; Sex role in literature; Political and social views
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Womanhood in Igbo cosmology : intersections in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Chinyere Okafor; title: And the truth is made manifest : the strong ones behind Okonkwo / Chioma Opara; title: 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; title: Children of the home : Ezinma, Beauty to Behold / Blessing Diala-Ogamba; title: Alienated histories : mapping landscapes of women's participation and autonomy in Achebe's Things fall apart and Anthills of the savannah / Anthonia C. Kalu; title: Love and motherhood in Chinua Achebe's novels / Helen Chukwuma; title: Metamorphosing female characters in select Achebe novels : women as signposts / Angela M. Fubara; title: Revalorizing women's agency : motherhood in Anthills of the Savannah / Caroline Mbonu; title: Power play and gendered spaces in Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the savannah / Uzoechi Nwagbara; title: Feminist stance and language : a focus on Beatrice in Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the savannah / Margaret Fafa Nutsukpo; title: The power to name : the new image of African womanhood in Achebe's Anthills of the savannah / Irene Salami-Agunloye; title: Violence against Achebe's women : Okonkwo and "the gun that never shot" / Onyemaechi Udumukwu; title: The power of naming : a case of Beatrice Nwanyibuife in Anthills of the savannah / Caroline Mbonu; title: Girls at war : Achebe's short stories / Patricia Emenyonu; title: The passive ones : Chinua Achebe's Arrow of god / Chinyelu Ojukwu; title: Matriarchal preeminence in a patriarchal world : women as the backbone of traditional African society / Laura Miller; title: Individualism and the pull of tradition in Things fall apart and The joys of motherhood / Paula T. Wingard; title: Portrayal of womanhood in Achebe's Things fall apart and Ezeigbo's The last of the strong ones / Blessing Diala-Ogamba; title: From the master craftsman himself : interviews and conversations with Chinua Achebe on women's portraiture in his novels / Christine Ohale; title: Epilogue : fifty years hence.