Invoking Flora Nwapa : : Nigerian women writers, femininity and spirituality in world literature / / Paula Uimonen.
By invoking Flora Nwapa, this monograph draws attention to Nigerian women writers in world literature, with an emphasis on femininity and spirituality. Flora Nwapa's Efuru (1966) was the first internationally published novel in English by a female African writer. With the establishment of Tana...
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