Author: Ogunyemi, Chikwenye Okonjo; Introduction: Stimpson, Catharine R.
Women in Culture & Society (Hardcover); Hardcover
Published: December 1995
University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226620840

Ogunyemi offers the first close look at eight Nigerian women writers and a new vernacular theory based on their work, tracing a literary tradition centered on children and community, and countering prevailing masculinist theories of black literature in a powerful narrative of the Nigerian world.This text presents eight Nigerian women writers and proposes a vernacular theory based on their work. Flora Nwapa, Adaora Lily Ulasi, Buchi Emecheta are some of the writers included. The importance of children and community in the literary tradition of African womanism is assessed.