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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Buchi Emecheta"”.
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The social affirmation of "woman" in selected texts by Buchi Emecheta and Alice Walker
… affirmation of "woman" in selected texts by Buchi Emecheta and Alice Walker. It is pointed out how in traditional Mrican patriarchal societies the relationships between male and female have always been determined by social mores put in place by men. By the same token, there has been a strong …
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The Secret Lives of Polygamous Wives: African Feminist Consciousness and Writing in Selected Nigerian Polygamous Narratives
… Adébáyọ̀, and The Joys of Motherhood (1979) by Buchi Emecheta. This dissertation examines the ways in which Shoneyin, Adébáyọ̀ and Emecheta demonstrate African feminist theory and consciousness in writing women characters in these novels. These authors not only expose patriarchal systems but …
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At home in the metropole : gender and domesticity in contemporary migration fiction
… a feminist postcolonial approach to works by Buchi Emecheta, Monica Ali, Andrea Levy, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Leila Aboulela, this thesis challenges dominant readings of migration fiction that have been shaped by postmodern and diasporic frameworks of displacement and rupture, emphasising …
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Feminist voice in african women novels: evidence from Flora Nwapa’s one is enough, Calitxhe Beyala’s the sun hath looked upon me and tsitsi dangaregmba’s nervous conditions
… made to the works of African female writers like Buchi Emecheta, MariamaBâ and Chimamanda NgoziAdichie. An analysis of the selected characters from the text was made based on the feminist theory purported by scholars such as Adrienne Rich, Simone de Beauvoir and Kate Millett, to cite just a few. …
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Subjectivities in Decolonisation: The Post-Independence Film and Novel in Africa and South Asia
… Ritwik Ghatak’s The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) and Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra (1982) situate subjective experience as an intervention into Partition and Nigerian Civil War historiographies respectively; and chapter five discusses the relationship between subjectivity and place in Kamala …