Research Article

The Ordeal Of Blackness And Womanhood In Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen

Volume: 8 Number: 1 April 30, 2017
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The Ordeal Of Blackness And Womanhood In Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen

Abstract

Many former-colonised authors “write back to the centre” following decolonisation by challenging and remodelling the texts about their nations. The Nigeria-born British author Buchi Emecheta is one of them. Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen revolves around Adah. The protagonist starts her ardous life by struggling against the patriarchal Igbo culture she is born into. Then, she encounters the racial discrimination in London where she accompanies with her husband, Francis, who represents patriarchy; thus, her ordeal is doubled as being both black and a woman in London. In the novel, Emecheta draws a portrayal of her own life by means of Adah who achieves standing upon her feet as a black mother in the colonial society at last. She provides a way out for black women by means of the protagonist who manages to elude from the second-class position attributed to them by black men and the colonial society. Moreover, the author fills in the blanks left by colonialist authors. She also informs about the Nigerian people who had a culture with their religion, language and life style destroyed by colonisers. Thus, the purpose of the study is to indicate how Emecheta abrogates and reapproriates in her autobiographical novel Second Class Citizen.

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References

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Details

Primary Language

English

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

April 30, 2017

Submission Date

December 19, 2016

Acceptance Date

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Published in Issue

Year 2017 Volume: 8 Number: 1

APA
Erdem Ayyıldız, N. (2017). The Ordeal Of Blackness And Womanhood In Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen. Çankırı Karatekin Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 8(1), 137-149. https://izlik.org/JA65YF79KD
AMA
1.Erdem Ayyıldız N. The Ordeal Of Blackness And Womanhood In Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen. CAKU JISS. 2017;8(1):137-149. https://izlik.org/JA65YF79KD
Chicago
Erdem Ayyıldız, Nilay. 2017. “The Ordeal Of Blackness And Womanhood In Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen”. Çankırı Karatekin Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 8 (1): 137-49. https://izlik.org/JA65YF79KD.
EndNote
Erdem Ayyıldız N (April 1, 2017) The Ordeal Of Blackness And Womanhood In Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen. Çankırı Karatekin Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 8 1 137–149.
IEEE
[1]N. Erdem Ayyıldız, “The Ordeal Of Blackness And Womanhood In Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen”, CAKU JISS, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 137–149, Apr. 2017, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA65YF79KD
ISNAD
Erdem Ayyıldız, Nilay. “The Ordeal Of Blackness And Womanhood In Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen”. Çankırı Karatekin Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 8/1 (April 1, 2017): 137-149. https://izlik.org/JA65YF79KD.
JAMA
1.Erdem Ayyıldız N. The Ordeal Of Blackness And Womanhood In Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen. CAKU JISS. 2017;8:137–149.
MLA
Erdem Ayyıldız, Nilay. “The Ordeal Of Blackness And Womanhood In Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen”. Çankırı Karatekin Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, vol. 8, no. 1, Apr. 2017, pp. 137-49, https://izlik.org/JA65YF79KD.
Vancouver
1.Nilay Erdem Ayyıldız. The Ordeal Of Blackness And Womanhood In Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen. CAKU JISS [Internet]. 2017 Apr. 1;8(1):137-49. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA65YF79KD