Buchi Emecheta
(1944 -)
(Full name Florence Onye Buchi Emecheta) Nigerian novelist, autobiographer, and author of children's books.
Buchi Emecheta: Introduction
Buchi Emecheta: Principal Works
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Biography EssayBuchi Emecheta is to date the most important female African writer. The extent of her output and the centrality of her subject matter-the role of women in present-day Africa-have put he...
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Buchi Emecheta is to date the most important female African writer. The extent of her output and the centrality of her subject matter--the role of women in present-day Africa--have put her in this pos...
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In the following essay, Ogunyemi provides an overview of Emecheta's literary career and the major themes in her novels.
Easily the most poignant event in Nigeria's Buchi Emecheta'...
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In the following excerpt, Kolawole discusses Emecheta's fictional use of autobiography in Second-Class Citizen to illustrate the reality of African women. “The intersection of personal p...
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In the following excerpt, Loflin examines the significance of household environments and architecture in The Joys of Motherhood as indicative of tension between traditional Nigerian communal life and ...
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In the following essay, Solberg examines Emecheta's conflicted feminist perspective and the representation of African women and contemporary social themes in her fiction. According to Solberg, ...
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In the following review, Gomez offers a favorable assessment of Double Yoke.
Buchi Emecheta's new novel lays bare the schism between the limiting yet familiar comforts of traditional African ro...
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In the following essay, Umeh discusses Emecheta's social concerns and the presentation of female liberation and sex roles in Double Yoke. “Emecheta again campaigns against female subjuga...
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In the following excerpt, Bazin provides an overview of feminist themes in the fiction of Emecheta and Bessie Head.
Bessie Head, born in 1937 in South Africa, has probably received more acclaim than a...
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In the following essay, Emecheta discusses her artistic concerns and feminist perspective. As Emecheta illustrates, African feminism differs significantly from Western feminism due to the distinct cul...
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In the following review, McKnight offers a favorable assessment of The Family.
“The writer with the tin ear,” wrote John Gardener, in his book On Becoming a Novelist, who is good enough ...
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In the following review, Newson offers tempered praise for Kehinde.
Buchi Emecheta's latest novel, Kehinde, is a study of cultural traditions, adaptation, and transculturation, of how and when...
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Critical Essay by Alice Walker
Though [Second Class Citizen] is not stylistically exciting and is no doubt heavily autobiographical, it is no less valid as a novel. And a good one. It raises fundament...
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Critical Essay by Valentine Cunningham
The cumulative achievement of [Buchi Emecheta's] Second-Class Citizen (1975), The Bride Price (1976) and The Slave Girl (1977) has commanded my mounting a...
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Critical Essay by Anita Kern
The London-based Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta continues to grow in talent and craftsmanship. The novel The Slave Girl, her fourth book, is her most accomplished work so ...
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Critical Essay by Andrew Motion
Buchi Emecheta is … concerned with tyranny, but her attention is more precisely fixed on the trials of a specific gender than of a particular nation. Although th...
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Critical Essay by Adrianne Blue
[In the Ditch is] derived from a diary Emecheta had kept for years, it depicts life at Pussy Cat Mansions, a public housing project, where Adah and her cockney neighbor...
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Critical Essay by Peter Kemp
The Joys of Motherhood, by Buchi Emecheta, is that rarity, a quiet piece of feminism. Its main character, Nnu Ego, is also out of the ordinary. (p. 93)
Both the old way of...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Lelyveld
[Buchi Emecheta's account in "The Joys of Motherhood"] of three generations of Ibo women and their changing values with regard to the children th...
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Emecheta, Buchi
Buchi Emecheta
(Florence) (Onye) Buchi Emecheta
