Buchi Emecheta

A poignant story of a resourceful Nigerian woman who overcomes stricttribal domination of women and countless setbacks to achieve anindependent life for herself and her children.

The Bride Price is the poignant love story of Aku-nna, a young Igbo woman, and her teacher, Chike, the son of a prosperous former slave. As their tribe begins to welcome western education and culture,

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabu

The story of a young Jamaican girl, Gwendolen Brillianton, who is born into poverty and deserted by her parents when they emigrate to London. Being reunited with her parents and the siblings she has

"Emecheta's fluent prose...is steeped in the tradition of a difficult rural African life."--The New York Times.

In the aftermath of the Nigerian Civil War, the elders of a small village try to teach a lesson to a group of disobedient boys

The Slave Girl follows the fortunes of Ogbanje Ojebeta, a Nigerian woman who is sold into slavery in her own land after disease and tragedy leave her orphaned as a child. In her fellow slaves, she fi

本書首度出版於1979年，以尼日利亞女性 Nnu Ego 的一生為主軸，細膩描寫母職在父權社會中的重量與矛盾。她在第一段婚姻中無法生育而被放逐，隨後在拉各斯成為母親，卻並未因此獲得安穩的人生。戰爭、貧窮與被遺棄接連而來，她必須獨自撐起家庭，也承受「母親」這個角色所帶來的期待與犧牲。本書不將母性浪漫化，而是誠實呈現其艱難與孤獨。Buchi Emecheta 以沉著而富同理心的筆觸，書寫女性在傳統、殖民與現代化夾縫中的掙扎，使本書成為非洲女性文學的重要經典。First published in 1979, The Joys of Motherhood is Buchi Emecheta’s powerful and unsentimental portrait of womanhood, motherhood, and survival in a patriarchal society. Set in Nigeria against the backdrop of colonial rule and World War II, the novel follows Nnu Ego, a woman whose worth is measured almost entirely by her ability to bear children. After being cast out of her first marriage for infertility, she eventually becomes a mother in Lagos—only to discover that motherhood brings not security, but relentless hardship, sacrifice, and isolation. Abandoned by her husband and unsupported by her community, Nnu must fight to protect herself and her children in a rapidly changing world. Written with clarity, emotional restraint, and deep compassion, this enduring

This is a timely and comprehensive study combining various critical approaches to the fiction of Buchi Emecheta, one of Africa's most illustrious and contentious women writers. Feminist (Showalter, Ci

Surveys the works of three important female writers of postcolonial societies.

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

This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers — Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Buchi Emecheta, M

Drawing on five novels since the 1970s by Nigerian Buchi Emecheta, Zimbabwean Tsitsi Dangaremdga, and Cameroonian Calixthe Beyala, Collins (French and English, U. of South Carolina-Lancaster) examines

In this collection of 41 stories from West Africa, each country is presented by several stories, a map, and country statistics on size, population, ethnic groups, and languages. An introduction explor

Africa Wo/Man Palava offers the first close look at eight Nigerian women writers and a new vernacular theory based on their work. Flora Nwapa, Adaora Lily Ulasi, Buchi Emecheta, Funmilayo Fakunle, Ife

Over the past decade, tattoos have become one of the most popular forms of visual culture in the world. This lavishly illustrated book showcases the work of the most significant tattoo practitioners o

In 2008, the men ™s wheelchair basketball team at the University of Illinois set out to achieve their sport ™s pinnacle: a college national championship. That lofty goal represented another stage of a