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Class, culture, and the colonial context: the status of women in Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.(Critical Essay)
International Fiction Review; 1/1/2002; Derrickson, Teresa; 5840 words
; ... of the written scholarship on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood (1979 ... experienced by the female protagonist of Buchi Emecheta's novel. As the novel makes evident ... Head, Emerging Perspectives on Buchi Emecheta, ed. Marie Umeh (Trenton, NJ ...
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"He neo-Tarzan, she Jane?": Buchi Emecheta's 'The Rape of Shavi.' (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
College Literature; 2/1/1995; Newman, Judie; 5241 words
; Although Buchi Emecheta's fiction has attracted considerable ... Literature. Enugu: Fourth Estate, 1980. Emecheta, Buchi. Destination Biafra. London: Fontana, 1983. -----. Guardian Conversation: Buchi Emecheta Talks to Susheila Nasta. ICA Video ...
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Authenticity and the geography of empire: reading Gaskell with Emecheta.(an essay on reading imperial history contrapuntally)
Studies in the Literary Imagination; 9/22/2002; Lesjak, Carolyn; 10177 words
; ... different novel, comes in Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood ... and other unfinished maps for a different record ... contain nothing but good news. Margaret, Job Legh's ... return. What Emecheta maps here is not simply a ... provide the necessary maps. Modestly defining her ...
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Representing the African woman: subjectivity and self in The Joys of Motherhood.
CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction; 1/1/2002; Nnoromele, Salome C.; 6765 words
; ... of Motherhood has been called Buchi Emecheta's most outstanding novel. Beyond ... direct correlation, other works by Buchi Emecheta and other African women, is the ... view. Desiree Lewis states that Buchi Emecheta's treatment of maternity in The ...
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Madness in black women's writing. Reflections from four texts: a question of Power, the joys of Motherhood, Anowa and possessing the secret of joy.
Ahfad Journal; 6/1/2002; Osaki, Lillian Temu; 7330 words
; ... Bessie Head's A question of Power , Buchi Emecheta's The joys of Motherhood , Ama ... writings. Bessie Head, Ama Ata Aidoo, Buchi Emecheta and Alice Walker are among the ... Emecheta. The Joys of Motherhood Buchi, Emecheta is another African female novelist ...
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Changes: A Love Story.
The Women's Review of Books; 11/1/1994; Gardner, Susan; 2249 words
; AMA ATA AIDOO and Buchi Emecheta, despite their different nationalities (Aidoo is from Ghana, Emecheta from Nigeria) have much in common. Emecheta, born in 1946, divorced, has four living children ...
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Kehinde.
The Women's Review of Books; 11/1/1994; Gardner, Susan; 2230 words
; AMA ATA AIDOO AND Buchi Emecheta, despite their different nationalities (Aidoo is from Ghana, Emecheta from Nigeria) have much in common. Emecheta, born in 1946, divorced, has four living children ...
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Survival With the British; A West Indian Woman's Search for Identity
The Washington Post; 2/22/1990; Caryl Phillips; 921 words
; THE FAMILY By Buchi Emecheta Braziller. 239 pp. $17.95; paperback, $8.95 Buchi Emecheta's 11th novel, "The Family," marks a departure ... post-colonial Britain. Hitherto the main body of Emecheta's work has been concerned with journeys from ...
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'Wonder women': towards a feminization of heroism in the African fiction: a study of the heroines in second class citizen and god's bits of wood.(Report)
Education; 6/22/2008; Agho, Jude Oseghale, Francis; 4880 words
; ... female writers like Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta, Zaynab Alkali, Zulu Sofola, Grace ... we are examining in this essay Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen and Sembene ... Through the picture of Adah, Buchi Emecheta develops a heroine who is able ...
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(book reviews)
World Literature Today; 9/22/1994; Newson, Adele S.; 572 words
; Buchi Emecheta's latest novel, Kehinde, is a study of ... enough for one of us. In the acknowledgment Emecheta thanks her friends for the book's creation ... engaging. Its execution, however, is uneven. Emecheta is at her best when she testifies to female ...
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