Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta
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Si Florence Onyebuchi "Buchi" Emecheta OBE (Hulyo 21, 1944 – Enero 25, 2017) sarong nobelistang Nigerian na nakabase sa UK puon 1962, siya nagsurat nin mga dula asin mga sadiring talambuhay, asin mga librong pang-aki. Siya an nagsurat kan lampas 20 na libro, kabali na an Second Class Citizen (1974), The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977) asin The Joys of Motherhood (1979). halos an saiyang mga nobela pinublikar kan kompanya na nasa London an Allison and Busby, kun saen an saiyang editor si Margaret Busby.

An saiyang mga tema iyo an pang-ooripon sa mga kaakian, pagiging ina, pagiging malaya kan mga kababaihan asin sa edukasyon na nakakuang pagmidbid sa mga kritiko asin mga halangkaw. Iniladawan niya an saiyang mga istorya bilang mga "istorya nin kinaban na kun saen an mga kababaihan nakakaranas nin pang unibersong problema sa pagtios asin opresyon, mas haloy na pagtinir, dawa saen sinda hale, mas dakol na magiging problema." An saiyang mga gibo nagdulot nin tensyon sa tradisyon asin pagiging moderno. Siya an "first successful black woman novelist na nkaistar sa Britain pakatapos kan 1948".

Mga gibo

Mga Nobela

• In the Ditch (1972)
• Second Class Citizen (1974)
• The Bride Price (1976)
• The Slave Girl (1977); winner of 1978 Jock Campbell Award
• The Joys of Motherhood (1979)
• The Moonlight Bride (1981)
• Our Own Freedom (with photographs by Maggie Murray; 1981)
• Destination Biafra (1982)
• Naira Power (1982)
• Adah's Story [In the Ditch/Second-Class Citizen] (London: Allison & Busby, 1983).
• The Rape of Shavi (1983)
• Double Yoke (1982)
• A Kind of Marriage (London: Macmillan, 1986); Pacesetter Novels series.
• Gwendolen (1989). Published in the US as The Family
• Kehinde (1994)
• The New Tribe (2000)

Sadiring Talambuhay

• Head Above Water (1984; 1986)

Children’s/Young adults' books

• Titch the Cat (illustrated by Thomas Joseph; 1979)
• Nowhere to Play (illustrated by Peter Archer; 1980)
• The Wrestling Match (1981)

Mga Dula

• Juju Landlord (episode of Crown Court), Granada Television, 1975.
• A Kind of Marriage, BBC television, 1976.
• Family Bargain, BBC Television, 1987.

Mga Artikulo

• The Black Scholar, November–December 1985, p. 51.
• "Feminism with a Small 'f'!" in Kirsten H. Petersen (ed.), Criticism and Ideology: Second African Writer's Conference, Stockholm 1988, Uppsala: Scandinanvian Institute of African Studies, 1988, pp. 173–181.
• Essence magazine, August 1990, p. 50.
• New York Times Book Review, 29 April 1990.
• Publishers Weekly, 16 February 1990, p. 73; reprinted 7 February 1994, p. 84.
• World Literature Today, Autumn 1994, p. 867.