Emerging Perspectives of Buchi Emecheta Book

	Maps
	Foreword
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: (En)Gendering African Womanhood: Locating Sexual Politics in Igbo Society and Across Boundaries
Pt. 1	Igbo Women and Culture	1
I	Tradition and the African Female Writer: The Example of Buchi Emecheta	5
II	Buchi Emecheta and the Tradition of Ifo: Continuation and Writing Back	27
III	Nigerian Legal Concepts in Buchi Emecheta's: The Pride Price	57
IV	The Shallow Grave: Archetypes of Female Experience in African Fiction	95
V	Orality and Patriarchal Dominance in Buchi Emecheta's The Slave Girl	125
Pt. 2	(Re)Visions of Female Empowerment	139
I	Venturing into Feminist Consciousness: Two Protagonists from the Fiction of Buchi Emecheta and Bessie Head	141
II	Replacing Myth with Myth: The Feminist Streak in Buchi Emecheta's Double Yoke	155
III	Her Ancestor's Voice: The Ibeji Transcendence of Duality in Buchi Emecheta's Kehinde	169
Pt. 3	Female Sexuality - The Body as Text	185
I	Procreation, Not Recreation: Decoding Mama in Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood	189
II	Trajectories of Rape in Buchi Emecheta's Novels	207
III	Desire and The Politics of Control in The Joys of Motherhood and The Family	227
Pt. 4	Reading Emecheta - The Poetic Voice(s)	247
I	Technique and Language in Buchi Emecheta's The Bride Price, The Slave Girl, and The Joys of Motherhood	251
II	Second-Class Citizen: The Point of Departure for Understanding Buchi Emecheta's Major Fiction	267
III	Buchi Emecheta, Laughter and Silence: Changes in the Concepts of "Woman," "Wife," and "Mother"	277
IV	Language and Gender Conflict in Buchi Emecheta's Second-Class Citizen	289
Pt. 5	(Re)Constructing Gender Relations	309
I	They Were There, Too: Women and the Civil War(s) in Destination Biafra	313
II	Coming to Terms: Buchi Emecheta's Kehinde and the Birth of a "Nation"	333
III	Tropes of Survival: Project and Affirmation in Buchi Emecheta's Autobiography, Head Above Water	349
IV	The London Novels of Buchi Emecheta	367
V	Buchi Emecheta: Politics, War, and Feminism in Destination Biafra	387
VI	To Ground the Wandering Muse: A Critique of Buchi Emecheta's Feminism	395
Pt. 6	African Pedagogy in Emecheta's Fiction for Children and Adolescents	407
I	Toward A Cultural Symbiosis: Buchi Emecheta's Children's Books	411
II	The Magic of Motherhood: Buchi Emecheta and the Caribbean Bildungsroman	421
III	Conflicting Social Values in Naira Power and A Kind of Marriage	433
	A Conversation With Dr. Buchi Emecheta	445
	Chronology of Emecheta's Life and Works	457
	Bibliography of Critical Works on Emecheta	461
	Contributors	475
	Index	481