Achebe's women : imagism and power /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Chukwuma, Helen
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, [2012]
Subjects:	Achebe, Chinua > Characters > Women. Women in literature. Sex role in literature. Patriarchy in literature. Achebe, Chinua > Political and social views.

Table of 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.