One is enough / Flora Nwapa. by Nwapa, Flora, 1931-1993

This is Lagos and other stories / Flora Nwapa. by Nwapa, Flora, 1931-1993

Routledge handbook of African literature / edited by Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee.

Table of Contents: “…Foundational fictions: variations of the marriage plot in Flora Nwapa's early anglophone-Igbo novels /…”
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After the ceremonies : new and selected poems / Ama Ata Aidoo ; edited and with a foreword by Helen Yitah. by Aidoo, Ama Ata, 1942-2023

Table of Contents: “…These Days (III): A Letter to Flora Nwapa --…”
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Writing African Women : Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa. by Newell, Stephanie

Table of Contents: “…6: Rewriting Popular Myths of Female Subordination: Selected Stories by Theodora Adimora-Ezeigbo and May Ifeoma Nwoye 7: Gender Conflict in Flora Nwapa's Novels ; 8: Culture and Gender Semantics in Flora Nwapa's Poetry ; 9: Behind the Veil in Northern Nigeria: The Writing of Zaynab Alkali and Hauwa Ali ; 10: The Onus of Womanhood: Mariama Bâ and Zaynab Alkali ; 11: Narrative Technique and the Politics of Gender: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy and No Sweetness Here ; Part III: Popular Culture ; 12: Hausa Women as Oral Storytellers in Northern Nigeria.…”
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Motherlands : Black women's writing from Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia / Susheila Nasta, editor.

Table of Contents: “…: mother figures in selected Indo-Anglian novels -- Motherhood as a metaphor for creativity in three African women's novels : Flora Nwapa, Rebeka Njau and Bessie Head -- "Bloodstream of our inheritance" : female identity and the Caribbean mothers' land -- Mothertongue voices in the writing of Olive Senior and Lorna Goodison.…”

Contemporary African literature and the politics of gender / Florence Stratton. by Stratton, Florence

Table of Contents: “…-- The mother Africa trope -- Room for women -- Men Fall Apart: Grace Ogot's novels and short stories -- Flora Nwapa and the Female Novel of Development -- 'Their New Sister': Buchi Emecheta and the contemporary African literary tradition -- 'Literature As A...Weapon': The novels of Mariama Ba -- Men write back -- Gender on the Agenda: novels of the 1980s by Ngugi and Achebe -- Redefining the African literary tradition.…”

African literature : gender discourse, religious values, and the African worldview / Safoura Salami-Boukari. by Salami-Boukari, Safoura

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Intertextuality in contemporary African literature : looking inward / Ode Ogede. by Ogede, Ode

Table of Contents: “…from documentary to investigative realism: Cyprian Ekwensi's Jagua Nana and Flora Nwapa's One is enough -- Lampoon, or the power of savage satire, and the visual object of distaste: Chinua Achebe's A man of the people and Ayi Kwei Armah's The beautyful ones are not yet born -- On the politics of love: Chinua Achebe's No longer at ease and Bessie Head's Maru -- Masking the infrastuctural frame: Christopher Okigbo and his acolytes (Labyrinths' aural and thematic echoes in Okinba Launko's Minted coins and Chimalum Nwankwo's The heart in the womb) -- Conclusion: coming out of shadow: eye on the tradition, looking for consequence.…”
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Stories of women : gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation / Elleke Boehmer. by Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation -- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe -- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism -- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation -- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative -- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera -- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy -- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame -- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.…”
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Stories of women : gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation / Elleke Boehmer. by Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation -- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe -- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism -- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation -- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative -- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera -- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy -- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame -- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.…”
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The Igbo intellectual tradition : creative conflict in African and African diasporic thought / edited by Gloria Chuku.

Table of Contents: “…Aka -- Chinua Achebe and the development of Igbo/African studies / Raphael Chijioke Njoku -- Nwanyibuife Flora Nwapa, Igbo culture and women's studies / Gloria Chuku -- Helen Chukwuma: the inimitable advocate for African women's empowerment / Christine Ohale.…”
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Postcolonial African Writers : a Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. by Jagne, Siga Fatima

Table of Contents: “…Githae Mugo; Peter Nazareth; Ngugi wa Thiong'o; Lewis Nkosi; Flora Nwapa; Molara Ogundipe-Leslie; Gabriel Okara; Christopher Ifeanyichukwu Okigbo; Ben Okri; Femi Osofisan; Ferdinand Oyono; Essop Patel; Alan Paton; Okot P'Bitek; Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo; Tijan Sallah; Olive Schreiner; Leïla Sebbar; Léopold Sédar Senghor; Wole Soyinka; Efua Theodora Sutherland; Sony Labou Tansi; Mositi Torontle; Amos Tutuola; Selected Bibliography; Index…”
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Tradition and Change in Contemporary West and East African Fiction. by Okuyade, Ogaga

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Womanhood, Sexuality, and Work The Dialectic of Exploitation (Flora Nwapa, Nawal El Saadawi, and Ama Ata Aidoo); Outgoing and Incoming Africans Migration and Reverse Migration Contemporary African Narratives; Development Imperatives and Transnationalismin Third-Generation Nigerian Fiction; Creativity and the Ugandan Woman The Dialectic of Struggle and Equality in Mary Karooro Okurut's The Invisible Weevil and Violet Barungi's Cassandra; Satire, Children, and Traumatic Violence The Case of Ahmadou Kourouma and Uwen Akpan.…”
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Rising anthills : African and African American writing on female genital excision, 1960-2000 / Elisabeth Bekers. by Bekers, Elisabeth, 1971-

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