Legacies of Departed African Writers analyzes and celebrates the resounding contributions of ten deceased African female writers of contemporary African literature and feminist scholarship, examining the ideologies, thematic concerns, and stylistic devices which constitute the fabrics of the legacies left by these iconic pacesetters.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Resounding Gongs of Fallen Female Heroes
Chioma Carol Opara and Helen O. Chukwuma
Part 1: Affirming the Charismatic Pathfinder: Flora Nwapa
"Flora Nwapa: The One Who Dwells in Wealth" Anthonia Kalu
Uwa Umunwanyi, Uwa Oma: Flora Nwapa and Women's History and Culture in Efuru and Idu Akachi Adimora- Ezeigbo
Flora Nwapa, Feminism and the Burden of History Kemi Wale- Olaitan
Flora Nwapa's Efuru: The Personified Goddess Anthonia Adadevoh
Forces and Flaws in Flora Nwapa's Efuru and Idu Perp St. Remy Asiegbu
Part 2: Orality and Rootedness in Culture and Tradition
Wolof Taasu Genre as Narrative Device in Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter Ada Uzoamaka Azodo
Non-Verbalized Communication of True Love in Traditional Dholuo in Grace Ogot's The Promised Land Eunita Ochola
Validation of Culture: A Re-reading of 'Zulu Sofola's Wedlock of the Gods and King Emene: A Tragedy of Rebellion. Nkem Okoh
Part 3: Interrogating Identity, Autonomy, and History
Archetypes of the Mother and the Scapegoat in Grace Ogot's Fiction Onyemaechi Udumukwu
Bessie Head: World Writer from Africa Mary S. Lederer
Narrating Hybridity: The Synthesis of Tradition and Modernity in Buchi Emecheta's Double Yoke Solomon Omatsola Azumurana
Depravity and Mental Torture in Nawal El Saadawi's Two Women inOne and Woman at PointZero Queen Albert and Onyemechi Nwaeke
Resurrecting Women from the Margins of History: Feminist Synergy in Selected Works by Assia Djebar Rose A. Sackeyfio
Part 4: Confronting Containment with Resistance and Freedom
From Passivity to Defiance: The Figure of Woman in Yvonne Vera's Novels Blessing Diala-Ogamba The Buchi Emecheta Phenomenon Austine Amanze Akpuda
Twin Kernels in One Pod: Naming of Nawal and Firdaus in El Saadawi's A Daughter of Isis and Woman at Point Zero Chinyere Grace Okafor
Women, Tradition and Resistance in Zulu Sofola's Wedlock of the GodsIrene Isoken Salami-Agunloye
Nadine Gordimer's Multiplex Legacy Ikeogu Oke
Part 5: Dynamics of Power and Narrative Voice
Language Use in the Discourse of Otherness in Bessie Head's Maru Omeh Obasi Ngwoke and Okwudiri Anasiudu
Synthesis of Binaries: The Mediating Voice in Mariama Ba's Novels Chioma Carol Opara
Epilogue: Un Cri de Coeur
Marie Umeh
