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Abstract
Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Children of the Eagle, published in 2002, is a narrative whose multiple avian metaphors produce and are paradigmatic of symbolically significant cultural referents in Igbo traditional life. In patriarchal Igbo society in South-eastern Nigeria where the phallocentric order assumes absolute hegemony over the matriarchal principle and is inscribed within the matrices of socio-cultural institutions, econo-political patterns of societal engineering and juridical matters, it is epistemologically and ideologically important that this novel negotiates the matriarchal condition through the deployment of avian metaphors.
Recommended Citation
Tsaaior, James Tar, The significance of avian metaphors in Akachi Adimora-Ezeibgo’s: Children of the eagle, Kunapipi, 29(2), 2007.
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