The Ordeal Of Blackness And Womanhood In Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen
Öz
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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Kaynakça
- Boss, Joyce. (1988). “Women and Empowerment: ‘An Interview with Buchi Emecheta’”, A Journal of African Studies, 16(2), pp: 93-100.
- Emecheta, Buchi. (1989). Second Class Citizen. 1974. Great Britain: Hodder and Stoughton.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
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Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Yayımlanma Tarihi
30 Nisan 2017
Gönderilme Tarihi
19 Aralık 2016
Kabul Tarihi
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Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2017 Cilt: 8 Sayı: 1