Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood: African Feminism in Context
The Criterion: An International Journal In English ISSN: Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood: African Feminism in Context Dr. Pooja Joshi Assistant Professor, Department of English Kanoria PG Girls College, Jaipur Abstract: Buchi Emecheta views her writing as, “the release of all my anger, all my bitterness, my disappointments, my questions and also my joys.” She uses her stories to teach morals, to entertain and to instruct she also brings to her writings the Igbo qualities of vividness, economy and directness. She speaks for the marginalized woman. Strong and conscientious, she is a woman who has never forgotten her roots and this she clearly portrays in her novels. In her fiction, The Joys of Motherhood (),Buchi Emecheta like other female writers writes about how to resist the male dominance by revealing the male characters of irresponsible husbands, exploitative in-laws, women oppression, and unnecessary dominance of the husband over his wife and all other sexist issues relevant to men’s world. Emecheta shows her concern for the condition of African women within the African Social, Political, Econ
Women’s History Month: Flora Nwapa, matriarch of contemporary African literature
In , a young Nigerian woman did what no African woman had done before. She published a novel with an international press company. The book, Efuru, was as much a milestone as it was a disruption.
At a time when African literature was dominated by male voices — Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o — Flora Nwapa insisted on something different. She put an African woman at the centre of the story.
Make no mistake. Nwapa didn’t just write literature. She carved out a space for African women in politics, publishing, storytelling, and history. More than 50 years later, her name is still mentioned with reverence, carrying the same weight as her male contemporaries.
A WOMAN OF MANY FIRSTS
Born Flora Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa on January 13, , in Oguta, present-day Imo state, she was the eldest of six children. Her father, Christopher Nwapa, was an agent for the United Africa Company (UAC), and her mother, Martha Nwapa, was a teacher. Education was non-negotiable in their home, and Flora excelled.
She attended Archdeacon Crowther Memorial Girls’ School before enrolling at the Universit
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AbstractThis study undertakes a Comparative Analysis of Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen and Flora Nwapa’s Efuru about the struggle, oppression and ill-treatment meted out on the female folk in a contemporary African society. It portrays the place of women in a traditional African setting; their works promotes equality for men and women. They bring into consideration the issues of marriage and in marriage the significance of children in a family, hope and encouragement for women to be strong in their daily life and for them to be self reliance. Some praises while others opposes them. Other female feminist writers fought on behalf of African women through their works by assigning roles that portrays women as important instrument in African society. Their works recommended that both gender should learn to accommodate one another.
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The Other Woman: A study of Buchi Emecheta's selected Novels
International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics Volume No. 15 , ISSN: (on-line version) url: Special Issue The Other Woman: A study of Buchi Emecheta’s selected Novels 1 , 2 , Assistant Professor in English, Vel Tech , Avadi, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India 2 Assistant Professor in English, Velammal Institute of Technology, Pancheti, Tamil Nadu Email: 1sivar6@ ABSTRACT Florence Onye Buchi Emecheta the female Nigerian writer settled in England was born to Igbo parents in Yaba, a small village near Lagos, Nigeria on 21 July managed to get an education at a missionary school bound by the custom she left the school at the age of sixteen to marry a man to whom she had been engaged since eleven years old. She became a mother at seventeen had two sons and three daughters by the time she was twenty-two. She moved to London in , where she worked as a librarian and became a student at London University in She began to write about the women in Nigeria in „The Bride Price‟, and „The slave Girl‟ both the novels are an account of women‟s experiences in the face of changing values in traditional Igbo society. The black women‟s
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