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This study undertakes a Comparative Analysis of Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen and Flora Nwapa’s Efuru about the struggle, oppression and ill-treatment meted out on the female folk in a contemporary African society. It portrays the place of women in a traditional African setting; their works promotes equality for men and women. They bring into consideration the issues of marriage and in marriage the significance of children in a family, hope and encouragement for women to be strong in their daily life and for them to be self reliance. Some praises while others opposes them. Other female feminist writers fought on behalf of African women through their works by assigning roles that portrays women as important instrument in African society. Their works recommended that both gender should learn to accommodate one another.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover Page - - - - - - - - - i
Certification - - - - - - - - - ii
Dedication - - - - - - - - - - iii
Declaration - - - - - - - - - - iv
Acknowledgements - - - - - - - - v
Abstract - - - - - - - - - vi
Table of contents - - - - - - - - - vii
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study - - - - - - - 1
1.2 Statement of the Problem - - - - - - - 2
1.3 Significance of the Study - - - - - - - 3
1.4 Purpose of the study - - - - - - - 4
1.5 Scope and Limitation of the Study - - - - - - 4
1.6 Research Methodology - - - - - - - 5
CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.0 Review of Related Literature on Buchi Emecheta Second Class Citizen and Flora Nwapa Efuru - - - - - - - - 6
2.1 Critique of Buchi Emecheta - - - - - - - 11
2.1.2 Critique of Flora Nwapa - - - - - - - 13
2.2 Buchi Emecheta and Flora Nwapa as Liberal Feminist - - - 17
CHAPTER THREE: BIOGRAPHY OF AUTHORS
3.1 Biography of Buchi Emecheta - - - - - - 20
3.2 Biography of Flora Nwapa - - - - - - - 22
CHAPTER FOUR: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF BUCHI EMECHETA’S SECOND CLASS CITIZEN AND FLORA NWAPA EFURU
4.1 Plot Analysis of Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen - - 24
4.2 Plot Analysis of Flora Nwapa’s ¬Efuru - - - - - 29
4.3 Comparative Analysis of Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen and Flora Nwapa Efuru - - - - - - - - 34
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1 Summary - - - - - - - - 44
5.2 Conclusion - - - - - - - - - 44
5.3 Recommendations - - - - - - - - 45
Works Cited - - - - - - - - 56
Introduction:
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
Comparative analysis shows the relationship between two things and how these things are similar or different.
According to Irwin (228) intersexuality is the shaping of texts meaning by other texts. It can be referred to as author’s borrowing and transformation of prior texts or to a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another.
In Africa, the early colonial era was pre-occupied by issues of cultural conflicts between Africans and Western cultures, religion and world view but the post independent African countries experience further changes in theme, this brought about changes in African writers thematic focus of most of female writers such as Ama Ata Aidoo, Marima Ba, Buchi Emecheta and Flora Nwapa.
Emecheta and Nwapa are earliest feminist writers, whose work serves as the starting point for the independence and freedom of African woman in general. They wrote novels about the struggle of African woman in contemporary African society and portray the condition of woman in the traditional African setting their works promotes equality for men and woman in Political, Economic, Educational, Traditional and social spheres they believe that women are oppressed due to their sex based on the dominants ideology of patriarchy.
Patriarchy literally means rule by men or by paternal right. It is a situation whereby women are ruled or controlled by men, giving power and importance to men.
Were Nigeria and Africa oppressively masculinity? The answer is “yes”. Ghana was known to have some matrilineal society such as Akan; but Nigeria’s traditional culture, Muslims as well as Non- Muslims had been masculine-based even before the advent of the white man. The source, nature and extent of female subordination and oppression have constituted a vexed problem in African literally debates. Writers such as Ama Ata Aidoo, of Ghana and late Flora Nwapa of Nigerian insisted that the image of the helpless, unproductive African women was once ushered in by European imperialist whose women lived that way. On the other hand, the Nigeria-born, expatriate writer Buchi Emecheta, along with other subordinated to sexist cultural mores.
Flora Nwapa was the lone Africa female novelist’s voice lamenting patriarchy, in 1996 she published Efuru significantly in African feminist scholarship, it signals a long awaited departure from the stereotypical female portraiture in male-authored African literature but the prolific Buchi Emecheta joined the fray with the Joys of Motherhood (1980). Therefore as the female Nigerian critics, Chikwenye Okwonje Ogunyemi writes;
If Nwapa is the challenger, Emecheta is the fighter for the first time, female readers, through characters, are aware of their subjugation by their fathers, uncles, husbands, brothers and son.
Examples of feminist writers are Elizabeth Gilman, charlotte Perkins, Julia Ward, Lockwood, Mary Wollstone craft, Simeon De Beauvoir, Catherine Acholonu, Ama Ata Aidoo, Marima Ba, Buchi Emecheta and Flora Nwapa.
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