Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's snail-sense feminism: a subtle womanist agenda For Nigerian children's and adults' literatureTools Olatunji, Rotimi Anne (2020) Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's snail-sense feminism: a subtle womanist agenda For Nigerian children's and adults' literature. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
AbstractThis thesis examines how the Nigerian woman writer, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s snail-sense feminism manifests in some selected literary works by the writer. The thesis makes use of a selection of her works for adults, young adults and children and foregrounds the details of her snail-sense in the works. Acknowledging the importance of tradition of storytelling in situating cultural gender experiences within the Nigerian social and cultural world, the thesis addresses the cultural location of Adimora-Ezeigbo’s stories as the propelling force behind the employment of her snail-sense feminist strategy. In this way the thesis can be seen to respond to Adimora-Ezeigbo’s literary oeuvre as an acknowledgement and a continuation of the different feminist models that came before hers and have been developed by Nigerian women writers. The thesis examines the gender nuances of Adimora-Ezeigbo’s children’s literature as subtle gestures towards creating early gender awareness which runs in line with her gender complementarity within the snail-sense feminist strategy. Even though the research eventually found that despite the writer’s claim to changing the portrayal of girl-child characters in literature meant for children, her fairytales for children still largely follows established patterns. Through the sample texts used in the research, the thesis establishes that Adimora-Ezeigbo’s snail-sense model is a variant which still follows the same path with earlier models by Nigerian women writers.
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