Writing Across Cultures: Gender Politics and Difference in the Fiction of Buchi Emecheta

Sougou, Omar

ISBN 10: 9042012986 / ISBN 13: 9789042012981

Editore: Brill Rodopi, 2002

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Titolo: Writing Across Cultures: Gender Politics and...

Casa editrice: Brill Rodopi

Data di pubblicazione: 2002

Legatura: Soft cover

Condizione: Very Good

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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, Cixous, Kristeva) and postcolonial approaches (writing back) are taken to Emecheta's texts to illuminate the personal, political and aesthetic ramifications of the production of this born writer. Poststructural programmes of analysis are shown to be less relevant to this writer s fiction than Marxist and Bakhtinian perspectives. Emecheta is shown to be a bridge-builder between two cultures and two worlds in narratives (both challenging and popular) characterized by ambiguity, ambivalence and double-voiced discourse, all of which evince the writer's determination to expose imaginatively the colonial heritage of centre-periphery conflicts, cultural corruption, ethnic discrimination, gender oppression, and the migrant experience in multiracial communities.