Ada Azodo
Instructor
aazodo@iun.edu
Arts and Sciences Building Department of Minority Studies, Room 2023
(219) 980-6629
Office Hours:
By Appointment
Publications
Single-Authored Books
1993 Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. L’imaginaire dans les romans de Camara Laye. Vol. 4: Studies in African and African American Cultures Series. James L. Hill. General Editor. New York, San Francisco, Berne, Baltimore: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1993
Edited and Co-Edited Books
2019 African Feminisms in the Global Arena: Novel Perspectives on Gender, Class, Ethnicity and Race. Ed. Glassboro, NJ: Goldline & Jacobs
2007 Emerging Perspectives on Aminata Sow Fall: The Real and The Imaginary in Her Novels. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2007b
2003 Emerging Perspectives on Mariama Bâ: Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Postmodernism. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2003
2009 Emerging Perspectives on Ken Bugul: From Alternative Choices to Oppositional Practices. Trenton: African World Press, 2009, with Jeanne-Sarah de Larquier, Pacific University, Oregon
2007 Gender and Sexuality in African Literature and Film. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2007a, with Maureen Ngozi Eke. Central Michigan University
1999 Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1999, with Gay Wilentz, [formerly of North Carolina State University]
Scholarly Articles in Academic Journals
2019 “Lagos Igbo Diaspora in Selected Writings by Flora Nwapa and Buchi Emecheta.” Igbo Studies Review, Number 7, 2019, pp. 3-15.
2019 “The Enduring Legacy of Mariama Bâ: Political Dimensions of Her Life and Works.” The Pan-African Pantheon. Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation. University of Johannesburg Press, 2020 (forthcoming).
2018 “La Spiritualité au féminin chez Mariama Bâ: Islam et la Femme dans Une si longue lettre.” Journal of the Literary Society of Nigeria, Issue 09, June, 2017.
2018 “The Prodigal Son Shall Not Return.” In. Payback and Other Stories. Eds.
Tomi Adeaga, Sarah Udoh-Grossfurthner. Vienna African Languages and Literatures (VALL) Series, Volume 1. pp. 17-21.
2017 “Les êtres humains vis-à-vis des signes environnementaux: étude écocritique du poème « Souffles » de Birago Diop. Center for Promoting Ideas, USA. International Journal of Language and Linguistics, Vol. 4, No. 3, September. pp. 132-140. ISSN 2374-8850 (PRINT); ISSN 2374-8869 ONLINE).
2017 “Di-Feminism.” African Feminisms: Ideology, Gender and Development. Ofo: Journal of Transatlantic Studies. Guest Editor. Vol. 5, Nos. 1 & 2. Goldline and Jacobs Publishing, 2017.
2016 “Theater for Social Justice and Human Dignity in Contemporary Nigeria: A Critical Reading of Selected Four Plays by Onyeka Iwuchukwu.” In Igbo Studies Review, Number 4, 2016: pp.1-21.
2016 “The Struggle For People House.” In Igbo Studies Review, Number 4, 2016, pp. 131-134.
2015 “Di-Feminism: An Indigenous Feminist Theory with Broad Claims for Ndi-Igbo,” ISA NEWSLETTER, Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall 2015, pp. 4-20.
2015 “Di-Feminism: An Indigenous Feminist Theory with Broad Claims for Ndi-Igbo” Feminisms in Africa and the African Diaspora: Ideology, Gender and Development. Ọfọ: Journal of the Transatlantic Studies, Vol. 5, Nos. 1 & 2, 2015.
2014 “A Move Half around the Globe.” History Research, EL MONTE, CA: David Publishing Company, USA.
2012 “Female Privilege and Power in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: The Role and Impact of the Priestess Chielo as agent of Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and Vales. In: Achebe’s Women: Imagism and Power. Ed. Helen Chukwuma. Trenton: Africa World Press 2012, pp. 41-54.
2012 “The Ordeal of a Biafran Refugee, Or When Women Became Men.” In: The Nigeria-Biafra War. Ed. Chima J. Korieh. New York: Cambria Press, 2012, pp. 209-231.
2011 “A Walk Down Memory Lane: Reminiscences of the Nigeria-Biafra War”. In: Against All Odds: The Igbo Experience in Postcolonial Nigeria. Eds. Apollos O. Nwauwa and Chima J. Korieh. Goldline and Jacobs Publishing, 2011, pp. 95-114.
2010 “A Zimbabwean Ethic of Humanity: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s The Book of Not & the Unhu Philosophy of Personhood.” African Literature Today. New Women’s Writing in African Literature. Vol. 27, Cambridge, England, 2010, pp. 117-129.
2007 “The Role of the Narratee in the Production of Meaning from Textual Discourse: The Example of Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter.” Journal of the African Literature Association of America (JALA), Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter/Spring: 2007, pp. 76-8.
2004 “Ken Bugul’s Le Baobab fou: A Female Story about A Female Body.” African Literature Today: New Women’s Writing in African Literature. Vol. 24. Cambridge, England, 2004, pp. 77-90.
2001 “Emois de femme: Méditations poétiques d'Évelyne-Berthe Agbo." In: Palabres. Volume Spéciale, Textes réunis et présentés par Irène Assiba d'Almeida. Ed. Dr. Komlan Sélom Gbanou. (Bayreuth) 2001, pp. 302-307.
1999 “Surviving the Present, Winning the Future: Revisiting the African Novel and the Short Story.” MOTS PLURIELS. No 9. February, 1999. http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP999auh.html
1997 “Issues in African Feminism: A Workable Syllabus.” In: Women’s Studies Quarterly: Teaching African Literatures in a Global Literary Economy. New York: The Feminist Press, XXV, Nos. 3 & 4, (Fall/Winter), 1997, pp. 201-207.
1994 “The Work in Gold as Spiritual Journey in Camara Laye’s The African Child.” Journal of Religion in Africa, XX11, No. 1, 1994.
Book Chapters
2019 “Reading Tess Onwueme’s Why the Elephant Has No Butt as Literature of the Environment: Melding Igbo Explanatory Tale and the Struggle Against Global Inequities.” Eco-Imagination: African and Diasporan Literatures and Sustainability. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2019 (forthcoming).
2019 “Identity and Pride in Igbo Names: A Reflection on Igbo Cultural Naming Tradition”. Apollos O. Nwauwa and Ogechi E. Anyanwu, Eds. Politics and Identity Formation in Southeastern Nigeria: The Igbo in Perspective. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, pp. 3-15.
2016 “New Forms in Mariama Bâ’s Une si longue lettre: A Postmodern Feminist Reading.” Selected Papers, African Literature Association annual meeting and conference, University of West Virginia, 2008. Africa World Press, Trenton, New Jersey, 2016.
2014 “Reading Tess Onwueme’s Why the Elephant Has No Butt as Literature of the Environment: Melding Igbo Explanatory Tale and the Struggle Against Global Inequities.” Eco-Imagination: African and Diasporan Literatures and Sustainability. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2014.
2012 “Female Privilege and Power in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: The Role and Impact of the Priestess Chielo as agent of Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and Vales. In: Achebe’s Women: Imagism and Power. Ed. Helen Chukwuma. Trenton: Africa World Press 2012, pp. 41-54.
2012 “The Ordeal of a Biafran Refugee, Or When Women Became Men”. In: The Nigeria-Biafra War. Ed. Chima J. Korieh. New York: Cambria Press, 2012: 209-31.
2011 “A Walk Down Memory Lane: Reminiscences of the Nigeria-Biafra War”. In: Against All Odds: The Igbo Experience in Postcolonial Nigeria. Glassboro, New Jersey: Goldline and Jacobs Publishing. Eds. Apollos O. Nwauwa and Chima J. Korieh. 2011: 95-114.
2008 “Introduction: Mariètou M’Baye Biléoma: Eclectics and Pragmatism.” In: Emerging Perspectives on Ken Bugul: From Alternative Choices to Oppositional Practices. Eds. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Jeanne-Sarah de Larquier. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2008. 1-25.
2008 “Ken Bugul and the African Imaginary: Symbolism, Initiation, and Allegory in La Folie et la Mort.” In: Emerging Perspectives on Ken Bugul: From Alternative Choices to Oppositional Practices. Eds. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Jeanne-Sarah de Larquier. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2008. 223-56.
2007 “The Imaginary in the Novels of Aminata Sow Fall.” In: Emerging Perspectives on Aminata Sow Fall: The Real and the Imaginary in Her Novels. Ed. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2007. 157-267.
2007 “Interview with Aminata Sow Fall: ‘Towards a Search of the African Soul, Writing and Imagination in the Novels of Aminata Sow Fall.’ [Translated from the French: “A la recherche de l’âme africaine: écriture et imagination chez Aminata Sow Fall]. In: Emerging Perspectives on Aminata Sow Fall: The Real and the Imaginary in Her Novels. Ed. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2007. 271-302.
2007 “The Issue is Race: Gender and Sexuality in Dany Laferrière’s North-American Autobiography.” In: Gender and Sexuality in African Literature and Film. Ed. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Maureen Ngozi Eke. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2007. 91-108.
2005 “History and Changes in Chinua Achebe's Fiction" Emerging Perspectives on Chinua Achebe, Vol. 2. ISINKA: The Artistic Purpose: Chinua Achebe and the Theory of African Literature. Eds. Ernest Emenyonu and Iniobong I. Uko. Trenton, N.J.: African World Press, 2005. 313-20.
2004 "Masculinity, Power, and Language in Achebe's Things Fall Apart." Emerging Perspectives on Chinua Achebe. Vol.1. Omenka the Master Artist: Critical Perspectives on Achebe’s Fiction. Ed. Ernest Emenyonu. Trenton, N.J.: African World Press, 2004. 49-65.
2003 “Introduction: The Phoenix Rises from Its Ashes.” In: Emerging Perspectives on Mariama Bâ. Ed. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2003, ix-xxxiii
2003 “Lettre sénégalaise de Ramatoulaye: Writing as Action in Mariama Bâ’s Une si longue lettre.” In: Emerging Perspectives on Mariama Bâ. Ed. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2003. 3-18.
2003 “Theorizing the Personal in Mariama Bâ’s Novels: Narration as Configuration of Knowledge.” In: Emerging Perspectives on Mariama Bâ. Ed. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2003, pp. 51-70.
2003 “Stranger Woman, Rebellious Woman: Exile and Immigration in Anne-Marie Niane and Mariama Bâ’s Fiction.” In: Emerging Perspectives on Mariama Bâ. Ed. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2003, pp, 107-20.
2003 “Can the Postcolonial Subject be White? The Nightmare of Self (Re) Definition in Mariama Bâ’s Un chant écarlate”. In: Emerging Perspectives on Mariama Bâ. Ed. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2003, 227-246.
2003 “Thème et Version: Translation as Acculturation, or Teaching Translation with Une si longue lettre and So Long a Letter.” In: Emerging Perspectives on Mariama Bâ. Ed. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2003, 277-301.
2003 “Postscript: From the Author to the Nation.” In: Emerging Perspectives on Mariama Bâ. Ed. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2003, 419-437.
1999 "On Becoming a Novelist: A Novel Reading of Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People." In: Goatskin Bags and Wisdom: New Critical Perspectives in African Literature. Ed. Ernest Emenyonu. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1999, 203-31,
1999 “Introduction: A Breath of Fresh Air.” Ada Uzoamaka Azodo, with Gay Wilentz. In: Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo. Ed. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo, in collaboration with Gay Wilentz. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1999, Xv-xxviii.
1999 “The Dilemma of a Ghost: Literature and Power of Myth.” In: Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo. Ed. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Gay Wilentz. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1999, 213-240.
1999 “The Multifaceted Aidoo: Ideologue, Scholar, Writer, and Woman. In: Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo. Ed. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Gay Wilentz. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1999, 399-425.
1999 “Afterword: Interviewing and Transcribing a Writer-Oral Artist.” In: Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo. Ed. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Gay Wilentz. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1999, 443-455.
1998 “(Re) Defining Africa’s limits: A Comparison of the Novel and the Short Story.” In: Migrating Words and Worlds: Pan-Africanism Revisited.” Africa World Press, 1998, 295-304.
1997 “Efuru and Idu: Rejecting Women’s Subjugation.” In: Emerging Perspectives on Flora Nwapa. Ed. Marie Linton Umeh. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1997, 161-85.
1997 “African Women in Search of Identity: Converging Feminism and Pragmatism." In: Emerging Perspectives on Flora Nwapa. Ed. Marie Linton Umeh. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1997, 241-259.
Biographies
Azodo, Ada Uzoamaka. “Aminata Sow Fall Novelist, Literary, and Cultural Activist.” Dictionary of African Biography. Vol. 6. Ed. Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Oxford: Oxford UP 2012, pp. 449-51.
[Contains about 2000 biographies of notable African peoples, from the earliest times to 2012. Aminata Sow Fall’s entry written by Azodo, Ada Uzoamaka is “Aminata Sow Fall Novelist, Literary, and Cultural Activist.” It has an added comprehensive bibliography of nine principal sources and ten secondary sources].
---. “Towards a Search for the African Soul: Writing and Imagination in the Novels of Aminata Sow Fall.” Emerging Perspectives on Aminata Sow Fall: The Real and the Imaginary in Her Novels. Ed. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. Trenton: Africa World, 2007.
[Interview covers author’s background, literary works and activism up to 2007, centers of excellence, and dwelling at the end with the pseudo-conflict that arose, due to her creating these centers and her association with other writers affiliated with the Senegalese Writers Union. Translated into the English as “Towards a Search for the African Soul: Writing and Imagination in the Novels of Aminata Sow Fall” by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo, interviewer, from the French: “A la recherché de l’âme africaine: écriture et imagination chez Aminata Sow Fall”].
Book Review
2002 African Women's Literature: Orature and Intertextuality, by Susan Arndt. [Translated by Isabel Cole]. Bayreuth African Studies Series. Vol. 48, Bayreuth: Eckhard Breitinger, 1998. 410 pages. 3-927510-59-9 paper. Research in African Literatures. Vol. 33:1. 2002, 187-189.
Encyclopedia Entries
2016 “Aminata Sow Fall” Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) Series.” Layman Poupard Publishing, LLC, 2016.
2011 “Laye, Camara,” Sow Fall, Aminata,” and Bâ, Mariama” – [three entries]. Dictionary of African Biography. Eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Emmanuel K Akyeampong: Oxford University Press, 2011.
1999 (Doris Lessing, Ellen Kuzwayo, Penina Muhando, and Miriam Tlali). In: Who’s Who in Contemporary Women's Writing. Ed. Jane Eldridge Miller. London: Routledge, 1999, 179; 185-186; 226-227; 321.
Translations
2003 “The Political Function of Written African Literatures by Mariama Bâ.” [A Re-translation of “La Fonction politique des littératures africaines écrites”]. In: Emerging Perspectives on Mariama Bâ. Ed. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2003, 411-416.
2007 “Interview with Aminata Sow Fall: “A la recherche de l’âme Africaine: écriture et imagination chez Aminata Sow Fall [Translated as [“Towards a Search of the African Soul, Writing and Imagination in the Novels of Aminata Sow Fall”]. In: Emergent Perspectives on Aminata Sow Fall: The Real and the Imaginary in Her Novels. Ed. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2007b, 271-302.
Editorials
2002 “Le français change, mais ne vieillit pas.” Indiana University Northwest Campus News, November
2001 “Erotic Picasso: Compositions on Philosophy and Human Sexuality.” Indiana University Northwest Campus News, September
2000 “The French Language Opens up Doors.” Indiana University Northwest Campus News, October
Obituaries
2013 “Eulogium; Or, My Life-Encounters with the Eagle-On-The-Iroko,” in Chinua Achebe: A Tribute (1930-2013), edited by Anthonia C. Kalu, Ernest N. Emenyonu, and Simon K. Lewis. https://africanlit.org/statements/remembering-chinua-achebe/
2006 “In Memory of Gay Alden Wilentz.” African Literature Association Bulletin, May.
2000 “In Memoriam: Wilifried W. Feuser.” African Literature Association Bulletin, April.
Interviews
2014 “On African Cultures, Literatures and Languages: Interview with Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo.” https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307809677_On_African_Cultures_Literatures_and_Languages_Interview_with_Akachi_Adimora-Ezeigbo
[Also In New Perspectives on a Literary Enigma: A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Theodora Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo. Eds. Emmanuel A Adedun and Onuora Benedict Nweke. Ibadan: University Press. Chapter 20, 360-69].
2008 “Creative Writing and Literary Activism: Interview with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie” January. http://www.iun.edu/~minaua/interviews/interview_chimamanda_ngozi_adichie.pdf
2007 “Interview with Aminata Sow Fall: Towards a Search for the African Soul”. In Aminata Sow Fall: The Real and the Imaginary in Her Novels.” Ed. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2007b.
2001 “Interview with Ken Bugul.” Archives of the African Literature Association, April. http://www.iun.edu/~minaua/interviews/Azodo_Interview_with_Ken_Bugul.pdf
2000 "Le Français dans le monde." Interview [of myself and Janice Spleth of University of West Virginia] in La Libre Belgique, Paris, July 21.
1999 “Interview with Ama Ata Aidoo: Facing the Millennium.” In: Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo. Ed. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Gay Wilentz. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press. http://www.iun.edu/~minaua/interviews/Azodo_Interview_with_Ama_Ata_Aidoo.pdf
1998 “Widowhood in Africa." Blue Danube Radio, Vienna, Austria, November.
1993 “Interview with Paul Baker: The Somalia Crisis,” WXXI Radio Talk Show, Rochester, New York, October.
Creative Writing
2018 “The Prodigal Son Shall Not Return.” In Payback and Other Stories. Eds. Tomi Adeaga, Sarah Udoh-Grossfurthner. Vienna African Languages and Literatures (VALL) Series, Volume 1. pp. 17-21.
2017 Volume Advisor for “Aminata Sow Fall: Senegalese Novelist and Short Story Writer.” Contemporary Literary Criticism. Gale Cengage Learning.
2016 “The Struggle for the People House” Igbo Studies Review, Number 4, 2016, pp. 131-34
2011 “This is Northwest Indiana, or The Sun Shall Burn Thee Neither By day nor the Moon By Night.” David Publishing.
2009 Created the Series, “Immigrant Voices in Short Stories.” [ Colleagues write a short story a year and present it at the annual conference and business meeting of the African Literature Association, to teach and learn]
