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| Maps | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Preface | ||
| Foreword | ||
| Introduction: Historicizing Flora Nwapa | 1 | |
| Tribute(s) to Flora Nwapa | ||
| "Ivory Befits Her Ankles" | 28 | |
| "Nwayi oma, biko nodu nma" | 29 | |
| "Your Golden Words" | 32 | |
| "Dirge to Flora Nwapa" | 34 | |
| "Demirifa Due" | 37 | |
| "The Trees at Home Are Falling Down" | 39 | |
| "Flora Nwapa: A Pioneer African Female Voice Is Silenced!" | 41 | |
| Pt. 1 | Igbo Women: Culture and Literary Enterprise | |
| Myth, History, Culture, and Igbo Womanhood in Flora Nwapa's Novels | 51 | |
| Flora Nwapa and Uhammiri/Ogbuide, The Lake Goddess: An Evolving Relationship | 77 | |
| The Mythic World in Flora Nwapa's Early Novels | 111 | |
| "The Empire, Far Flung": Flora Nwapa's Critique of Colonialism | 127 | |
| Not Feminist but Afracentrist: Flora Nwapa and The Politics of African Cultural Production | 143 | |
| Efuru and Idu: Rejecting Women's Subjugation | 161 | |
| Breaking Through: The Publishing Enterprise of Flora Nwapa | 189 | |
| Pt. 2 | (Re)Casting Gender Relations: Nigerian Women in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Experience | |
| Applauding A "Dangerous Luxury": Flora Nwapa's Womanist Re-Interpretation of The Ifo about the "Handsome Stranger" | 205 | |
| Space for The Subaltern: Flora Nwapa's Representation and Re-Presentation of Heroinism | 223 | |
| Nigerian Women in Search of Identity: Converging Feminism and Pragmatism | 241 | |
| Woman, The Self-Celebrating Heroine: The Novels of Flora Nwapa | 261 | |
| Bearing The Burden of Change: Colonial and Post-Colonial Experiences in Flora Nwapa's Women Are Different | 277 | |
| Shifting Paradigms of Profit and Loss: Men in Flora Nwapa's Fiction | 291 | |
| The Lake Goddess: The Roots of Nwapa's Word | 335 | |
| Pt. 3 | Aesthetics and Poetics in Nwapa's Canon | |
| Portrait of Flora Nwapa As A Dramatist | 357 | |
| Evading Canonical Constraints: The 'Popular' As An Alternative Mode - The Case of Flora Nwapa | 391 | |
| "To the Root/of Dear Cassava": Rhetorical Style in Flora Nwapa's Poetry | 411 | |
| Never A Gain? A Critical Reading of Flora Nwapa's Never Again | 429 | |
| Flora Nwapa's This is Lagos: Valorizing The Female Through Narrative Agency | 441 | |
| Vision and Revision: Flora Nwapa and The Fiction of War | 477 | |
| Orality and Metaphoric Dichotomy of Subject in The Poetry of Flora Nwapa's Cassava Song and Rice Song | 497 | |
| Pt. 4 | The Body Politic: Locating Female Sexuality | |
| Religion, Sexuality, and Women's Empowerment in Nwapa's The Lake Goddess | 515 | |
| The Quest for Spiritual/Sexual Fulfillment in Flora Nwapa's Efuru and The Lake Goddess | 531 | |
| Desire, The Private, and The Public in Flora Nwapa's Efuru and One Is Enough | 549 | |
| Pt. 5 | (Re)configurations of Child Symbolism | |
| Conquerors of The Universe: Flora Nwapa's Kiddies on The Move | 571 | |
| Flora Nwapa's Legacy to Children's Literature | 583 | |
| Flora Nwapa's Writings for Children: Visions of Innocence and Regeneration | 589 | |
| "Either Pound in the Mortar or Pound on the Ground:" Didacticism in Flora Nwapa's Children's Books | 607 | |
| Pt. 6 | Conversation(s) with Flora Nwapa | |
| An Interview with Flora Nwapa | 633 | |
| A Chat with Flora Nwapa | 655 | |
| The Poetics of Economic Independence for Female Empowerment: An Interview with Flora Nwapa | 661 | |
| Chronology of Flora Nwapa's Life and Works | 673 | |
| Bibliography of Critical Works on Flora Nwapa | 681 | |
| Notes on Contributors | 697 | |
| Permissions | 703 | |
| Index | 705 |
