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Et. al., Siva R,. "“The Joys of Motherhood” of an African Woman: A Mirage." Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT) 12, no. 2 (April 11, 2021): 1167–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/turcomat.v12i2.1138.

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Quest for identity is one phenomenon of postcolonialism that led way for the emergence of Women writers portraying the indigenous women of their society who were denied the authorial voice in the male-dominated society. Africa African woman literature has always been discussed elaborately not only among ‘White’ but also among fellow African women writers and critics across the globe. Emecheta was one such writer whose work has been criticized for writing after settled in the western country, UK (the colonizer). The readers from third world nations may agree with Emecheta’s call for the necessity to redefine Women’s identity under the African identity. Buchi Emecheta to that reverence has always through her strong woman characters never failed to express the state of the African women and their limitations in social life. Emecheta has always recorded her protagonists' struggle for equality in a male-dominated society. Through the study of her novel The Joys of Motherhood, an attempt is made to explore her perception of Motherhood and explain how she portrays it to the African context where traditions and communal ties are deeply rooted in the Nigerian Ibo society.

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Ashenafi Aboye. "Patriarchy in Buchi Emecheta’s The Slave Girl and Bessie Head’s A Question of Power: A Gynocentric Approach." Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities 16, no. 2 (April 15, 2021): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejossah.v16i2.1.

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African literature has been dominated by male African writers. However, there are a number of female African writers who contributed to the literary landscape of the continent significantly. In line with this, researches that deal with issues of gender in African literature are increasing (Fonchingong, 2006; Salami-Boukari, 2012; Stratton, 1994). In this study, I aim to expose patriarchal oppression in two selected post-colonial African novels. I ask “How do postcolonial African female writers expose gender oppression and patriarchy in their novels?” I ask how the female characters in the selected novels resist patriarchal dominance and oppression. I seek to uncover any thematic patterns and/or overlaps that would emerge across the selected novels. To achieve this, I analyze two feminist Anglophone African novels by female writers of the continent, namely ‘The Slave Girl’ and ‘A Question of Power’. Gynocentrism is used as an approach to achieve this purpose. The analyses of the novels make it feel that patriarchy is used as a tool to stabilize the discrimination of the feminine gender. The heroines in both novels are found to be patriarchal women with some attempt to reverse the gender order. The major female characters in the novels stand against the intersectional discrimination of the feminine from the male personhood, religion, as well as colonial culture. These discussions about patriarchy revive the vitality of African feminist novels to the present readers.

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B., Mary Stella Ran, and Poli Reddy R. "OJEBETA “THE SELF AWAKENED” IN BUCHI EMECHETA’S THE SLAVE GIRL." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 6, no. 10 (October 31, 2018): 95–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v6.i10.2018.1166.

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The novel “The Slave Girl” by Buchi Emecheta exposes the plights of African women and portrayal of their struggle as slaves and ultimately how they come up the problem and becomes a self-awakened. In this paper, one can see Ojebeta starting her life as a slave and finally becomes an owner of a house by passing so many phases of life as a slave. In the beginning, she is sold into domestic slavery by her own brother. She has become the victim to her brother’s traits. She has become a scapegoat to the plans of African patriarchy. The intention of Buchi Emecheta is to recreate the image of women through feminism. Emecheta’s fiction is blended with reality representing socio historical elements of the prevailing society and its environment besides questioning the pathetic conditions of the people in general and women in particular. One can observe the narration of innocence of childhood grown into adulthood by attaining certain amount of freedom with the Christian education which she has received with which she has attained a small degree of self-awareness.

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ÖZTOP HANER, Sezgi. "THE DOUBLE OTHERNESS OF BLACK WOMEN: BUCHI EMECHETA S SECOND-CLASS CITIZEN." Journal of International Social Research 10, no. 53 (December 20, 2017): 151–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.17719/jisr.20175334108.

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Barfi, Zahra, and Sarieh Alaei. "Western Feminist Consciousness in Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 42 (October 2014): 12–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.42.12.

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Feminism is a collection of movements which struggles for women's rights. Focusing on gender as a basis of women's sexual oppression, feminist scholarship attempts to establish equal rights for women politically, economically, socially, personally, etc. The Joys of Motherhood highlights Buchi Emecheta's critical view toward colonialism and racism affecting Third world women's lives. Besides this, Emecheta goes further to display African women's invisibility and marginalization-which were out of sight for a long time-in terms of some aspects of Western feminist discourse. Her creative discourse, in this regard, casts further light upon the issue of gender oppression in African feminist study. Hence, this study attempts to examine the way in which Emecheta furthers Western feminist ideology.

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Daymond, M. J. "Buchi Emecheta, laughter and silence: Changes in the concepts “woman”, “wife” and “mother”." Journal of Literary Studies 4, no. 1 (March 1988): 64–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564718808529852.

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Bamarani, Dr S. C. "The Adah - Upheaval in Buchi Emecheta’s Second –Class Citizen." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 9, no. 4 (April 28, 2021): 119–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v9i4.10989.

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Literature and the effects on the society is manifold. It provides aesthetic needs and also reconstructs the beliefs and values in the readers. The paper entitled “The Adah - Upheaval in Buchi Emecheta’s Second – Class Citizen” is an explicit presentation on the spirit of Adah. It also analyses the factors that gather her strength right from an ambitious girl to a strong, successful woman. The Adah-upheaval is the representation of the ever -glowing embers in the heart of every woman. The paper further traces the life of Adah and thereby a framework for comprehending the rise of Adah. It demonstrates the social factors that lay a hindrance and the unique individual character that keep a check to the same.

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Abdul, Zanyar Kareem. "BRIDE VALUE: A FEMINIST READING OF BUCHI EMECHETA’S THE BRIDE PRICE." Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching 3, no. 2 (December 19, 2019): 201–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.30743/ll.v3i2.1993.

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The Bride Price is one of the most influential modern novels authored by Buchi Emecheta through which the voice of a female character is expressed. The study has two points of discussion: the first deals with patriarchal society in which women suffer and become the only victims, and the second does with African culture from which Emecheta criticizes severely. Men have all the powers in controlling the whole family. The traditional society of Africa follows their culture as it is especially in paying the bride from the groom’s family. The paper aims at both men and women to keep this belief for the rest of their life no matter how modern the society has become. To some extent, the idea of “double colonization” proposed by Peterson and Rutherford (1986) will be identified in the paper and further explanation will be given. The paper also is an attempt to analyze the reflection of the African system related to marriage in the novel; as similar idea can be found in Iraqi Kurdistan that would be counted as the main objective behind writing the current paper. Furthermore, it shows some cultural similarities between both countries. By applying “double colonization” theory, the researcher confirms that Emecheta’s female characters suffer a traumatic experience in which they are controlled by two colonizers: the power of males and the reality of colonization. The researcher tries to send his messages through this paper out to avoid such conflicts and spread self and cultural awareness among the society.

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Selvakumar, S., and Dr S. Joseph Arul Jayraj. "A Beacon for the Bright Future: An Identification and Application of Emancipatory Strategies for Women in Buchi Emecheta’s Double Yoke." Think India 22, no. 3 (September 27, 2019): 1052–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.26643/think-india.v22i3.8444.

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Buchi Emecheta, a prolific literary giant, who is known for championing the cause of black women in Africa and Diaspora, has crafted more than twenty books elucidating the ordeals and the pitiable plight into which the black women have been ditched for ages. Her contribution to the literary world is widely acclaimed by many as her writings reflect her personal and community pathos comprehensively. Her versatile nature is exhibited through her multifaceted dimensions of an orator, essayist, novelist, and playwright. Her resurgence from nothingness to the pinnacle of fame is a testimony that her writings are very relevant and useful in today’s world. It would be crystal clear to anyone who reads her novels that her writings principally evolve around on twofold agendas. Firstly, it aims at exposing the harassment that women are prone to suffer under patriarchy and secondly, she crafts out series of plan of actions to overcome such hazards. It is her intellectual competency and acumen enables her to strategize effective mechanism to combat all the forces that are oppressive towards women.

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Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. "The Native in Comparative Literature." Comparative Literature 72, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 272–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00104124-8255306.

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Abstract This article tracks the ethical ambivalence of the native. First, there is a nativism drawn out with reference to Melissa Kennedy and Gary Okihiro that reframes the native in a poetic impulse, asks for a redistributive epistemological change in knower and known, and can rescue nativism into an acknowledgement of complicity. Second, there are acknowledgments of complicity that can pluck nativism away from the divisive compartmentalization that it seems to foster, as can be seen in the work of Soumaya Mestiri. The article ends with remarks from Buci Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood to underscore a critique of nativism in the rural-urban interface in Nigeria that is globally instructive and to point out the fact that woman is never native.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Emecheta, Buchi. Women Women in literature"

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Hadjitheodorou, Francisca. "Women speak the creative transformation of women in African literature /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08022006-130211/.

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Nyanhongo, Mazvita Mollin. "Gender oppression and possibilities of empowerment: images of women in African literature with specific reference to Mariama Ba's So long a letter, Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of motherhood and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/522.

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This study consists of a comparative analysis of three novels by three prominent African women writers which cast light on the ways in which women are oppressed by traditional and cultural norms in three different African countries. These three primary texts also explore the ways in which African women's lives are affected by other issues, such as colonialism and economic factors, and this study discusses this. An analysis of these novels reveals that the inter-connectedness of racial, class and gender issues exacerbates the oppression of many African women, thereby lessening the opportunities for them to attain self-realization. This study goes on to investigate whether there are possibilities of empowerment for the women in the primary texts, and examining the reasons why some women fail to transcend their situations of oppression. The primary novels will be discussed in different chapters, which explore the problems with which various women are beset, and discuss the extent to which the various women in the novels manage to attain empowerment. In conclusion, this study compares and contrasts the ways in which the women in the primary texts are oppressed and highlights the reasons why some women are able to attain empowerment, whilst others are unable to do so. It also shows that many women are beset with comparable forms of oppression, but they may choose to react to these situations differently. Over and above these issues, the study seeks to draw attention to the fact that women need to come together and contribute to the ways in which they can attain various forms of empowerment.

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Ogbuehi, Mary Rose-Claret [Verfasser]. "The Struggle for Women Empowerment Through Education : in the novels Second Class Citizen (1974) by Buchi Emecheta and Das verborgene Wort (2001) by Ulla Hahn / Mary Rose-Claret Ogbuehi." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1218301627/34.

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McLeod, Robyn. "Voicing the silence : African women in the novels of Buchi Emecheta /." Title page and chapter 1 only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arm1642.pdf.

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Ellsworth, Kirstin Lynne. "Buchi Emecheta : a novelist's image of Nigerian women /." 1991. http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/12/.

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Hadjitheodorou, Francisca. "Women speak : the creative transformation of women in African literature." Diss., 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26938.

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This study seeks to focus on the total female experience of African women and the reappropriation of a more authentic portrayal of the identity of women in African literature. In this dissertation, a chapter is devoted to each of the female protagonists in the three novels selected for discussion which are One is Enough (1981) by Flora Nwapa, Second-class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta (1975) and The Stillborn (1988) by Zaynab Alkali. Each chapter is named after the woman whose transformation it explores and the chapters are organised in a chronological sequence, that is, in the order that the writers of the texts were first published as authors of African literature, rather than according to the publication date of the text under discussion. The mode of treatment of the texts is dictated primarily by the womanist thrust and the central question of the way in which each of the female characters transcends the triple jeopardy of colour, class and gender to become a creative non-victim. The epithet 'creative transformation' in the title, therefore, describes the emergence of female characters in African writing who overturn the literary characterisation of the one-dimensional African woman who is a 'shadowy figure who hovers on the fringes of the plot, suckling infants, cooking' and 'plaiting' hair {Frank, 1987:14). The theoretical approach adopted for this study is largely of an eclectic nature but every effort has been made to establish a strong sense of the authenticity and credibility of the African woman's experience. In other words, the three texts chosen have been treated as both essentially social realist and African feminist texts read from a womanist perspective. The term ‘womanist’ is particularly valuable in the context of this study. The definition of womanism used in this study is that forwarded by critics such as Chikwenye Ogunyemi (1985) who states that ‘womanism believes in the freedom and independence of women like feminism’ but that ‘unlike feminism’, womanism ‘wants meaningful union between women and men and will wait for men to change their sexist stance’. The findings of this study show that the female protagonists achieve transformation not by reforming patriarchal systems, but by being creative and reappropriating their own identities within these often antagonistic systems. That is, the women achieve a measure of fulfillment and a strong sense of their own individuality within an imperfect context. Particularly in their individual responses to the experiences of marriage and motherhood in a traditional context and in their seeking an authentic identity, the characters in the novels studies create a framework that enables them to be the women they want to be and not the women society would like them to be: Amaka bears twins fathered by Izu, a Catholic priest; Adah – a mother of five – leaves a violent relationship to pursue a career as a writer and Li, after establishing an independent academic life, returns to her errant husband in the hope that they can rebuild their life together.
Dissertation (MA (English))--University of Pretoria, 2007.
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Carlson, Lisa M. "Affective metamorphoses : formations of community in the black British female bildungsroman." 2012. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1666208.

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My study examines three female Black British bildungsromane: Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Joan Riley’s Waiting in the Twilight, and Buchi Emecheta’s Second-Class Citizen. By combining a study of a relatively established novel form with contemporary female diasporic fictions, my work looks at how gender, race and location complicate the tropes of the genre, while still adhering to many of its parameters. I explore ways in which the existential states of loneliness, isolation, and solitude faced by the female protagonists in England assist or inhibit the formation of collectivity and subjectivity. This study pays particular attention to ways that community formation and friendship, as well as work and affective labor, serve as means to find/create a sense of home in diasporic conditions, as in Brick Lane and Second-Class Citizen. I also study how a sense of community falters because of a disconnection from productive work in Waiting in the Twilight.
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Books on the topic "Emecheta, Buchi. Women Women in literature"

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Reading Buchi Emecheta: Cross-cultural conversations. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1995.

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Palaver: Geschlechter- und Gesellschaftsdiskurs in Nigeria : Kon/Textuelle Lesung ausgewählter Romane der Igbo, Autorinnen Buchi Emecheta und Flora Nwapa. Bayreuth: Eckhard Breitinger, Bayreuth University, 2002.

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Gutiérrez, María Hierro. Maternidad e identidad afroamericanas: The joys of motherhood de Buchi Emecheta y Blessings de Sheneska Jackson. Sevilla: Ediciones Alfar, 2008.

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Gutiérrez, María Hierro. Maternidad e identidad afroamericanas: The joys of motherhood de Buchi Emecheta y Blessings de Sheneska Jackson. Sevilla: Ediciones Alfar, 2008.

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Gutiérrez, María Hierro. Maternidad e identidad afroamericanas: The joys of motherhood de Buchi Emecheta y Blessings de Sheneska Jackson. Sevilla: Ediciones Alfar, 2008.

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This is no place for a woman: Nadine Gordimer, Buchi Emecheta, Nayantara Saghal [i.e. Sahgal], and the politics of gender. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2000.

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Tracing personal expansion: Reading selected novels as modern African Bildungsromane. Lanham: University Press of America, 2006.

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Collins, Walter P. Tracing personal expansion: Reading selected novels as modern African Bildungsromane. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007.

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Allan, Tuzyline Jita. Womanist and feminist aesthetics: A comparative review. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1995.

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Marie, Umeh, ed. Emerging perspectives on Buchi Emecheta. Trenton, N.J: Africa World Press, 1996.

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Book chapters on the topic "Emecheta, Buchi. Women Women in literature"

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Sackeyfio, Rose A. "Unbelonging, race, and journeys of the self in the diaspora fiction of Buchi Emecheta." In West African Women in the Diaspora, 13–26. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003219323-2.

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Bromberg, Pamela S. "Buchi Emecheta." In Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers, 178–95. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429199271-13.

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"Earning a Life: Women and Work in the Fiction of Buchi Emecheta." In Africa and Its Significant Others, 35–44. Brill | Rodopi, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401200981_004.

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