Emerging Perspectives on Flora Nwapa: Critical and Theoretical Essays Book

	Maps
	Acknowledgements
	Preface
	Foreword
	Introduction: Historicizing Flora Nwapa	1
	Tribute(s) to Flora Nwapa
	"Ivory Befits Her Ankles"	28
	"Nwayi oma, biko nodu nma"	29
	"Your Golden Words"	32
	"Dirge to Flora Nwapa"	34
	"Demirifa Due"	37
	"The Trees at Home Are Falling Down"	39
	"Flora Nwapa: A Pioneer African Female Voice Is Silenced!"	41
Pt. 1	Igbo Women: Culture and Literary Enterprise
	Myth, History, Culture, and Igbo Womanhood in Flora Nwapa's Novels	51
	Flora Nwapa and Uhammiri/Ogbuide, The Lake Goddess: An Evolving Relationship	77
	The Mythic World in Flora Nwapa's Early Novels	111
	"The Empire, Far Flung": Flora Nwapa's Critique of Colonialism	127
	Not Feminist but Afracentrist: Flora Nwapa and The Politics of African Cultural Production	143
	Efuru and Idu: Rejecting Women's Subjugation	161
	Breaking Through: The Publishing Enterprise of Flora Nwapa	189
Pt. 2	(Re)Casting Gender Relations: Nigerian Women in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Experience
	Applauding A "Dangerous Luxury": Flora Nwapa's Womanist Re-Interpretation of The Ifo about the "Handsome Stranger"	205
	Space for The Subaltern: Flora Nwapa's Representation and Re-Presentation of Heroinism	223
	Nigerian Women in Search of Identity: Converging Feminism and Pragmatism	241
	Woman, The Self-Celebrating Heroine: The Novels of Flora Nwapa	261
	Bearing The Burden of Change: Colonial and Post-Colonial Experiences in Flora Nwapa's Women Are Different	277
	Shifting Paradigms of Profit and Loss: Men in Flora Nwapa's Fiction	291
	The Lake Goddess: The Roots of Nwapa's Word	335
Pt. 3	Aesthetics and Poetics in Nwapa's Canon
	Portrait of Flora Nwapa As A Dramatist	357
	Evading Canonical Constraints: The 'Popular' As An Alternative Mode - The Case of Flora Nwapa	391
	"To the Root/of Dear Cassava": Rhetorical Style in Flora Nwapa's Poetry	411
	Never A Gain? A Critical Reading of Flora Nwapa's Never Again	429
	Flora Nwapa's This is Lagos: Valorizing The Female Through Narrative Agency	441
	Vision and Revision: Flora Nwapa and The Fiction of War	477
	Orality and Metaphoric Dichotomy of Subject in The Poetry of Flora Nwapa's Cassava Song and Rice Song	497
Pt. 4	The Body Politic: Locating Female Sexuality
	Religion, Sexuality, and Women's Empowerment in Nwapa's The Lake Goddess	515
	The Quest for Spiritual/Sexual Fulfillment in Flora Nwapa's Efuru and The Lake Goddess	531
	Desire, The Private, and The Public in Flora Nwapa's Efuru and One Is Enough	549
Pt. 5	(Re)configurations of Child Symbolism
	Conquerors of The Universe: Flora Nwapa's Kiddies on The Move	571
	Flora Nwapa's Legacy to Children's Literature	583
	Flora Nwapa's Writings for Children: Visions of Innocence and Regeneration	589
	"Either Pound in the Mortar or Pound on the Ground:" Didacticism in Flora Nwapa's Children's Books	607
Pt. 6	Conversation(s) with Flora Nwapa
	An Interview with Flora Nwapa	633
	A Chat with Flora Nwapa	655
	The Poetics of Economic Independence for Female Empowerment: An Interview with Flora Nwapa	661
	Chronology of Flora Nwapa's Life and Works	673
	Bibliography of Critical Works on Flora Nwapa	681
	Notes on Contributors	697
	Permissions	703
	Index	705