Africa Wo/Man Palava: The Nigerian Novel by Women

by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi

Book Overview

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"