Buchi Emecheta

Emecheta, Buchi - booˈchē āməchāˈtə, 1944–, Nigerian novelist, b. Lagos as Florence Onye Buchi Emecheta. In 1962 she accompanied her husband to England, where she had five children. After leaving her husband, she remained in England and wrote novels about the struggles of African women moving from traditional to modern roles in societies Read More...

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Reading Buchi Emecheta: Cross-Cultural Conversations
by Katherine Fishburn. 206 pgs.

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In this first full-length study of Emecheta's fiction, Fishburn highlights the difficulties inherent in reading across cultures. She challenges the notion that all we need to understand African texts is a willingness to be open to them, arguing that too many of the cultural and critical preconceptions we bring to these texts interfere with our ability to understand them. Directly responding to Western feminist criticism written about Emecheta, this study argues that Emecheta herself is not a feminist in the Western sense and that her novels should not be construed as reflecting this political interest. In close readings of eight of her best known works, this study reveals a complex narrative voice which is far more supportive of Emecheta's own African culture and its tradition than has been recognized previously.

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Recent Titles in Contributions to the Study of World Literature

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Preface: A Hybrid Text

NOTES

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Question of Power

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1: The Author--And Reader--As Other: A Postmodern Approach to African Fiction

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2: Aesthetics, Language, and Politics

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3: Life as an Emigré

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4: The Sense of an Ending

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5: The Difference of View

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Class, Culture, and the Colonial Context: The Status of Women in Buchi Emecheta's the Joys of Motherhood, in International Fiction Review
by Teresa Derrickson. 11 pgs.

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Class, culture, and the colonial context: the status of women in Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood
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"He Neo-Tarzan, She Jane?": Buchi Emecheta's the Rape of Shavi, in College Literature
by Judie Newman. 10 pgs.

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"He Neo-Tarzan, She Jane?": Buchi Emecheta's the Rape of Shavi
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Contemporary Fiction (Chap. 12 "Rewriting Ethnicity in Buchi Emecheta's Fiction")
by Jago Morrison. 262 pgs.

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This is the ideal guide for those studying contemporary fiction for the first time. The last twenty-five years have seen an explosion of new developments in the English language novel. Because of its enormous diversity, however, the field of contemporary fiction studies can appear complex and confusing. Jago Morrison's Contemporary Fiction provides a much-needed accessible introduction to the field. He enables readers to navigate the subject by introducing the key areas of debate and offers in-depth discussions of many of the most significant texts. Writers examined include: Ian McEwan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jeanette Winterson, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Hanif Kureishi, Buchi Emecheta and Alice Walker. Tackling issues such as history, time and narrative, the body, race and ethnicity, this represents an important contribution to the understanding of contemporary fiction.

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Acknowledgements

Part I: Frameworks

Introduction

1: History and Post-Histories

2: Time and Narrative

3: Bodies, Genders

4: Writing and Race

Part II: Readings

5: Unravelling Time in Ian Mcewan’s Fiction

6: Memory Blocks: The Fictional Autobiography of Maxine Hong Kingston

7: Jeanette Winterson: Re-Membering the Body

8: Toni Morrison: Blackness and the Historical Imagination

9: Imagining Nations: Salman Rushdie’s Counter-Histories

10: Angela Carter: Genealogies

11: After ‘Race’: Hanif Kureishi’s Writing

12: Rewriting Ethnicity in Buchi Emecheta’s Fiction

13: Writing as Activism: Alice Walker

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Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender (Chap. 5 "'Their New Sister': Buchi Emecheta and the Contemporary African Literary Tradition")
by Florence Stratton. 200 pgs.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Aspects of the Male Literary Tradition

1: How Could Things Fall Apart for Whom They Were Not Together?

2: The Mother Africa Trope

Part II: Room for Women

3: Men Fall Apart

4: Flora Nwapa and the Female Novel of Development

5: Their New Sister

6: Literature as A…weapon

Part III: Men Write Back

7: Gender on the Agenda

Conclusion

Notes

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Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference (Chap. 2 "(Re)Constructing Identity and Subjectivity: Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Tsitsi Dangarembga")
by Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi. 188 pgs.

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Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Gender, Feminist Theory, and Post-Colonial (women's) Writing

2: (re)constructing Identity and Subjectivity: Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Tsitsi Dangarembga

3: Sexuality in Cameroonian Women Writers: Delphine Zanga Tsogo, Calixthe Beyala, Werewere Liking

4: Women Redefining Difference: Mariama Bâ, Miriam Tiali, and Bessie Head

Conclusion: African Women's Writing as a Weapon

Notes

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Postcolonial London: Rewriting the Metropolis (Chap. 3 "Living Room: Buchi Emecheta, Joan Riley, and Grace Nichols")
by John McLeod. 213 pgs.

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London's histories of migration and settlement and the resulting diverse, hybrid communities have engendered new forms of social and cultural activity reflected in a wealth of novels, poems, films and songs. Postcolonial London explores the imaginative transformation of the city by African, Asian, Caribbean and South Pacific writers since the 1950s.John McLeod engages freshly with the work of both well-known and emergent writers, including Sam Selvon, Doris Lessing, V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Colin MacInnes, Bernardine Evaristo, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Fred D'Aguiar. In reading a select body of writing in its social contexts and exploring contrasting attitudes to London's diasporic transformation, he traces an exciting history of resistance to the prejudice and racism that have at least in part characterised the postcolonial city. Rewritings of London, he argues, bear witness to the determination, imagination and creativity of the city's migrants and their descendants.This is a superb study of the ways in which 'imperial centre' might be rewritten as postcolonial metropolis. It represents essential reading for those interested in British or postcolonial literature, or in theorisations of the city and metropolitan culture.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: Making a Song and Dance

2: London, England

3: Living Room

4: Babylon's Burning

5: Millennial Currents

Coda

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Index
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Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature (Chap. 10 "Romantic Love and the Individual in Novels by Mariama Ba, Buchi Emecheta, and Bessie Head")
by Yakini Belinda Kemp, Janice Lee Liddell. 268 pgs.

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Edited collection of essays examining the fiction of contemporary Africana women including Ama Ata Aidoo, Shirley Anne Williams, Ntozake Shange, Flora Nwapa, Maryse Conde, Elizabeth Nunez Harrell, Jamaica Kinkaid and others.

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Foreword

Introduction

Part 1 A Birthing of Self

1 Psychic Rage and Response The Enslaved and the Enslaver In Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose

2 Voyages Beyond Lust and Lactation The Climacteric as Seen in Novels By Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall

3 A Woman's Art; a Woman's Craft The Self in Ntozake Shange's Sassafras, Cypress, and Indigo

4 Coming Home to Herself Autonomy and Self-Conversion In Flora Nwapa's One is Enough

Part 2 Relationships: Mothering, Marrying, Mistressing, and Women to Women Disengaging the Family Romance

5 When Difference is Not the Dilemma The Black Woman Couple In African American Women's Fiction

6 "Devouring Gods" And "Sacrificial Animals" The Male-Female Relationship In Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: a Love Story

7 Snapshots of Childhood Life In Jamaica Kincaid's Fiction

8 Fire and Ice The Socioeconomics of Romantic Love In When Rocks Dance by Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell

Part 3 War on All Fronts Race, Class, Sex, Age, and Nationality

9 Agents of Pain and Redemption In Sapphire's Push

10 Romantic Love and the Individual In Novels by Mariama Bâ, Buchi Emecheta, and Bessie Head

11 The Politics of Exile Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy

12 Sense Make Befoh Book" Grenadian Popular Culture and the Rhetoric of Revolution In Merle Collins's Angel and the Colour of Forgetting

Part 4 Invention and Convention Womanist Gazes on Literary and Critical Traditions

13 Meditations on Her/Story Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem And the Slave Narrative Tradition

14 Guyana's Historical Sociology and The Novels of Beryl Gilroy and Grace Nichols

15 Textual Deviancy and Cultural Syncretism

16 "A Girl Marries a Monkey" The Folktale as an Expression of Value And Change in Society

17 Revolutionary Brilliance The Afrofemcentric Aesthetic

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Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond (Chap. 12 "Aliens, Airplanes, and Cultural Cross-Dressing: Reading Buchi Emecheta, Haruki Murakami, and Paul Theroux")
by Marleen S. Barr. 231 pgs.

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FOREWORD MARLEEN BARR'S LOST AND FOUND

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1: Thelma And Louise Driving Toward Feminist Science Fiction

2: Anne Mccaffrey Portrays A Female Artist

3: Suzy Mckee Charnas, Sally Gearhart, and Marge Piercy Depict Sex and the Single Feminist Utopian Quasi-Tribesperson

4: Jessica Amanda Salmonson'S "The Prodigal Daughter" And Feminist Science Fiction'S Traditions

5: "Science Fiction'S Invisible Female Men Joanna Russ'S "When It Changed"" And James Tiptree'S "The Women Men Don'T See"

6: Men In Feminist Science Fiction Marge Piercy, Thomas Berger, And The End Of Masculinity

7: Suzy Mckee Charnas, Zoý Fairbairns, Katherine Marcuse, And Kate Wilhelm Blur Generic Conventions Pregnancy And Power In Feminist Science Fiction

8: Octavia Butler And James Tiptree Do Not Write About Zap Guns Positioning Feminist Science Fiction Within Feminist Fabulation

9: Antipatriarchal Fabulation; Or, The Green Pencils Are Coming, The Green Pencils Are Coming

10: Haroun And Seeing Women'S Stories

11: Ursula Le Guin'S "Sur" As Exemplary Humanist And Antihumanist Text

12: Aliens, Airplanes, And Cultural Cross-Dressing

13: Ms. Sammler'S Planet Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, And Joanna Russ Rescue The Female Child'S Story

PERMISSIONS

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Undercurrents of Mammy Wata Symbolism in Buchi Emecheta's the Joys of Motherhood, in West Virginia University Philological Papers
by Lisa Friedli-Clapie. 8 pgs.

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Undercurrents of Mammy Wata Symbolism in Buchi Emecheta's the Joys of Motherhood
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Authenticity and the Geography of Empire: Reading Gaskell with Emecheta, in Studies in the Literary Imagination
by Carolyn Lesjak. 24 pgs.

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Authenticity and the Geography of Empire: Reading Gaskell with Emecheta
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Great World Writers: Twentieth Century ("Buchi Emecheta" p. 309-318)
by Patrick M. O'Neil. 432 pgs.

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Isak Dinesen

Buchi Emecheta

E M Forster

Carlos Fuentes

Athol Fugard

GAO Xingjian

Federico García Lorca

Gabriel García Márquez

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Modern British Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide (Discussion of Buchi Emecheta begins on p. 113)
by Del Ivan Janik, Vicki K. Janik, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 428 pgs.

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This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 British women writers of the 20th century. Some of these writers were born in England, while others, such as Katherine Mansfield and Doris Lessing, came from countries of the former Empire or Commonwealth. The volume also includes entries for women of color, such as Kamala Markandaya and Buchi Emecheta.

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Fleur Adcock 1934-

Beryl Bainbridge 1933-

Pat Barker 1943-

Sybille Bedford 1911-

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Elizabeth Bowen 1899-1973

Vera Brittain 1893-1970

Anita Brookner 1928-

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Brigid Brophy 1929-1995

A.S. Byatt 1936-

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Angela Carter 1940-1992

Agatha Christie 1890-1976

Caryl Churchill 1938-

Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1969

Anne Devlin 1951-

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Margaret Drabble 1939-

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Maureen Duffy 1933-

Buchi Emecheta 1944-

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Penelope Fitzgerald 1916-2000

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Pam Gems 1925-

Susan Elizabeth Hill 1942-

Winifred Holtby 1898-1935

Attia Hosain 1913-1998

Elizabeth Jane Howard 1923-

P.D. James 1920-

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Storm Jameson 1891-1986

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Ann Jellicoe 1927-

Pamela Hansford Johnson 1912-1981

Charlotte Keatley 1960-

Rosamond Lehmann 1901-1990

Doris Lessing 1919-

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Penelope Lively 1933-

Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923

Kamala Markandaya 1924-

Pauline Melville 1948-

Charlotte Mew 1869-1928

Penelope Mortimer 1918-1999

Iris Murdoch 1919-1999

Grace Nichols 1950-

Barbara Pym 1913-1980

Jean Rhys 1890-1979

Dorothy Richardson 1873-1957

Vita Sackville-West 1892-1962

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Dorothy L. Sayers 1893-1957

May Sinclair 1863-1946

Edith Sitwell 1887-1964

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Stevie Smith 1902-1971

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Muriel Spark 1918-

Lisa St. Aubin De Terán 1953-

Elizabeth Coles Taylor 1912-1975

Angela Thirkell 1890-1961

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Sylvia Townsend Warner 1893-1978

Fay Weldon 1931-

Timberlake Wertenbaker 1944(?)-

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Mary Wesley 1912-

Rebecca West 1892-1983

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Jeanette Winterson 1959-

Virginia Woolf 1882-1941

E. H. Young 1880-1949

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