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Journal of African American Studies
Published in: Journal of African American Studies 2-3/2018

20-08-2018 | BOOK REVIEW ESSAY

“The New African Woman”: A Study on Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra as a Personal War for Womanhood

Authors: A. Karthika Unnithan, Harini Jayaraman

Published in: Journal of African American Studies | Issue 2-3/2018

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Contestations and assertions in public discourse signal a strong change in the postcolonial world that has for long been engaged in struggles and wars to free itself from colonizing powers. Literature and history have, in fact, meticulously recorded the pain and trauma undergone by the people of such regions. More important is to conduct a reality check and find out how far these struggles and assertions have been successful in bringing about transformations to the human lives in these regions. In order to do that, looking back at such records becomes necessary and this paper is an attempt to reread Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra, a war novel from a female fighter-protagonist’s view. …
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Literature
Emecheta, B. (1982). Destination Biafra: a novel. London: Allison & Busby.
Falola, T., & Ezekwem, O. (2016). Writing the Nigeria-Biafra war. Suffolk: James Currey.
McLuckie, C. W. (1990). Nigerian Civil War literature: seeking an “imagined community”. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press.
Porter, A. M. (1996). They were there, too: women and civil war in Destination Biafra. In Emerging perspectives on Buchi Emecheta (Vol. 313–32). Trenton: Africa World Press.
Metadata
Title
“The New African Woman”: A Study on Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra as a Personal War for Womanhood
Authors
A. Karthika Unnithan
Harini Jayaraman
Publication date
20-08-2018
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of African American Studies / Issue 2-3/2018
Print ISSN: 1559-1646
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4741
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-018-9407-7

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