Africa Wo/Man Palava: The Nigerian Novel by Women

(Part of the Women in Culture and Society Series)

by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi

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Africa Wo/Man Palava offers the first close look at eight Nigerian women writers and proposes a new vernacular theory based on their work. Flora Nwapa, Adaora Lily Ulasi, Buchi Emecheta, Funmilayo Fakunle, Ifeoma Okoye, Zaynab Alkali, Eno Obong, and Simi Bedford are the writers Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi considers. African womanism, an emerging model of female discourse, is at the heart of their writing. In their work, female resistance shifts...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226620859

ISBN13:9780226620855

Release Date:April 1996

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:366 Pages

Weight:1.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

African & Middle Eastern Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Politics & Social Sciences World Literature

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