Reading Buchi Emecheta: Cross-Cultural Conversations
In this first full-length study of Emecheta's fiction, Fishburban highlights the difficulties inherent in reading across cultures. She challenges the notion that all we need to understand African texts is a willingness to be open to them, arguing that too many of the cultural and critical preconceptions we bring to these texts interfere with our ability to understand them. Directly responding to Western feminist criticism written about Emecheta, this study argues that Emecheta herself is not a feminist in the Western sense and that her novels should not be construed as reflecting this political interest. In close readings of eight of her best known works, this study reveals a complex narrative voice which is far more supportive of Emecheta's own African culture and its tradition than has been recognized previously.
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Reading Buchi Emecheta: Cross-Cultural Conversations
In this first full-length study of Emecheta's fiction, Fishburban highlights the difficulties inherent in reading across cultures. She challenges the notion that all we need to understand African texts is a willingness to be open to them, arguing that too many of the cultural and critical preconceptions we bring to these texts interfere with our ability to understand them. Directly responding to Western feminist criticism written about Emecheta, this study argues that Emecheta herself is not a feminist in the Western sense and that her novels should not be construed as reflecting this political interest. In close readings of eight of her best known works, this study reveals a complex narrative voice which is far more supportive of Emecheta's own African culture and its tradition than has been recognized previously.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780313295898 |
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| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publication date: | 04/25/1995 |
| Series: | Contributions to the Study of World Literature , #61 |
| Pages: | 224 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d) |
| Lexile: | 1480L (what's this?) |
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