Sovereign Body [Paperback]

Tanure Ojaide (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2004

An educated African woman's effort to break free from patriarchal oppression and prejudices. Set in Nigeria of the military regime era, Anna's struggle against patriarchy parallels and highlights the people's contention against military dictatorship for freedom.

Editorial Reviews

Review

No other Nigerian novel confronts the problem of patriarchy and the need for emancipation head on with committment and intensity. -- Heinemann reviewer

Strong, passionate, humanly insightful, and poetic. I felt I learned all the time about the microtexture of Nigerian culture. -- Frederick Will

About the Author

A Fellow in Writing of the University of Iowa, Tanure Ojaide received a B.A. in English from the University of Idaban, M.A. in Creative Writing and Ph.D. in English from Syracuse University. He has published over a dozen collections of poetry, a book of short stories, a memoir and scholarly work. His awards include the Commonwealth Prize for the African Region (1987), the All-Africa-Okigbo Prize for Poetry (1988, 1997), the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award (1988), the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Award (1988, 1994, 2003). He taught for many years at the University of Maiduguri and is currently Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of North Carolina. He received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 1999 and a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award that took him to Nigeria in 2002/2003. Sovereign Body is his first published novel.

Product Details

• Paperback: 188 pages
• Publisher: Panther Creek Press (September 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974783978
• ISBN-13: 978-0974783970
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,153,229 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)