Reading Buchi Emecheta: Cross-Cultural Conversations

by Katherine Fishburn

Book Overview

In this first full-length study of Emecheta's fiction, Fishburn 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313295891
• ISBN13: 9780313295898
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"