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Tanure Ojaide

Sovereign Body

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Sovereign Body relates an educated African woman's effort to break free from patriarchal oppression and prejudices. Anna, bright poet and academic, faces crushing marriage problems when her doctor husband abandons his practice and waits for a political appointment which does not come. As Anna finds home more oppressive, she turns to a professor, a former lover with whom she had severed a relationship upon her marriage. The doctor's mental breakdown and Anna's duty to him make her future uncertain. Set in Nigeria of the military regime era, Anna's struggle against patriarchy parallels and highlights the people's contention against military dic… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-9679511-6-4
  • EAN: 9780967951164
  • Produktnummer: 22662578
  • Verlag: Cissus World Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 208 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.2 cm 328 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 328

Über den Autor


A renowned poet, Tanure Ojaide has won major national and international poetry awards, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Africa Region (1987), the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award (1988), twice the All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry (1988 and 1997), and thrice the Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Prize (1988, 1994 and 2004. In 2016 Ojaide was awarded the the prestigious Fonlon-Nichols Award at the 42nd annual African Literature Association (ALA) conference in Atlanta.

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