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Book · 2002
Children of the Eagle
Five adult daughters return to their ancestral village of Umuga in 1990s eastern Nigeria, reflecting on four generations of maternal heritage and personal aspirations in a changing society.
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This study seeks to examine how the Nigerian female writer Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo redefines otherness in Children of the Eagle by exploring the narrative elements of the sub-genre of fictional autobiography in centring female subjects.
Folasade Hunsu on Tydskrif vir Letterkunde In Children of the Eagle Ezeigbo propounds 'daughteronomy' by using four sisters as vehicles of dispersing the nebulous clouds of patriarchy over a part of Igboland. The four daughters of the Okwara couple, enjoy sisterhood, and with their sisterhood they launch out a quiet reform of the retrogressive traditions in Umuga.
J. O. J. Nwachukwu-Agbada on Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo is one of the outstanding vibrant feminist voices in Nigerian literature today. Her trilogy that started in 1996 was completed in 2002 with the publication of Children of the Eagle. In this novel she underscores the possible place, and role of umuada (women married out of a kin-group) and alutaradi (women married into a kin-group) in a quest to dismantle patriarchy in her Igboland.
J. O. J. Nwachukwu-Agbada on Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
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