Buchi Emecheta

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Buchi Emecheta OBE (born July 21, 1944 in Lagos , Nigeria , † January 25, 2017 in London ) was a Nigerian writer .

Life

Her parents were Jeremy Nwabudike and Alice Okwuekwu Emecheta. They are both of the Igbo people . She married her husband when she was 17 and had one child. Her husband went to London to study and she followed him. When she was 22 years old, she left him and graduated with a degree in sociology . She and her husband had five children.

Emecheta achieved her literary breakthrough with her novel The Joys of motherhood (1979; German: Twenty Sacks of Shell Money, 1983) in which she describes the fate of the chieftain's daughter Nnu Ego, who breaks in the tension between tradition and the colonial present. It is one of the great social novels in the tradition of Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart , in which a colonized people, this time from the perspective of a woman, gives an account of their past and the way into the modern age.

Buchi Emecheta was included in the Daughters of Africa anthology , edited in 1992 by Margaret Busby in London and New York.

Quote

“When in the UK I can put all my resentments in my books because I know that people in the UK read books; in Nigeria, however, I have to raise my voice publicly because people rarely buy books. "

- Buchi Emecheta

Works

  • In the ditch . Barrie & Jenkins, London 1972, ISBN 0-214-65413-3 .
  • Second-class citizens . Allison & Busby, London 1974, ISBN 0-85031-137-3 .
  • The bride price . Novel 1976.
  • The slave girl . Novel 1977.
    • Slave girl , novel, translated by Susanne Koehler, Hammer, Wuppertal 1997, ISBN 3-87294-745-1 .
  • Titch the cat . Children's book 1979,
  • The Joys of motherhood, Roman, Allison & Busby, London 1979.
    • Nnu Ego - twenty sacks of shell money. Translated by Helmi Martini-Honus and Jürgen Martini: Frauenbuchverlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-88897-101-2 .
  • Nowhere to play. 1980, children's book
  • The wrestling match. 1980, novel
  • The moonlight bride. 1980, novel
  • Destination Biafra. 1982, novel
  • Naira power. 1982, novel
  • Double yoke. 1983, novel
  • Head Above Water. 1986, autobiography
  • Gwendolen. 1989 (American: The Family , 1990), Roman
  • The Rape of Shavi. 1983, novel
  • A kind of marriage. 1986, novel
  • Kehinde. 1994, novel
  • The New Tribe. 2000, novel

literature

  • Christiane Fluche: Palaver: Gender and Society Discourse in Nigeria, contextual reading of selected novels by the Igbo authors Buchi Emecheta and Flora Nwapa , Breitinger, Bayreuth 2002, ISBN 3-927510-74-2 (Dissertation University of Bayreuth 2000, 337 pages) .
  • Susanne Pichler: Buchi Emecheta's "London novels": an intercultural approach WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2001, ISBN 3-88476-474-8 (Dissertation University of Trier 2001, 276 pages, English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nigerian literary icon Buchi Emecheta has died. ( flv , 1:25 minutes, 1 MB) BBC World Service , January 26, 2017, accessed on January 27, 2017 . Novelist, Buchi Emecheta, 'this in her sleep'. The Cable Lifestyle, January 26, 2017, accessed January 27, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Emecheta, Buchi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Lagos , Nigeria
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2017
Place of death London , England