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Comparative Analysis Of Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen And Nwapa’s Efuru
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1.5 METHODOLOGY
Feminism
is one of the broad literary criticisms in literature. According to
(Joseph, 2003, p.161) feminism is a world wide ideology and political
movement directed at existing power relations between men and women in
patriarchal society. She goes further to assert that feminism is a kind
of criticism which is the struggle of women emancipation and men in such
society hide under the disguise of male supremacy to subjugate women by
a system of sex role stereotyping. There are different types of
feminism which are: Radical, socialist, cultural, eco-feminism, liberal,
conservative and others.
Liberal feminism is the equality of men and
women through political and legal reform. They want the eradication of
institutional bias and implementations of fairer laws towards women.
Features of liberal feminism include: focus on women’s ability to show
and maintain their equality through their own actions and choices, it
looks at the personal interaction of men and women as the starting
ground from which to transform society into a more gender equitable
place and it projects genders complimentarity and gives room to caring
and nurturing of children.
Therefore this work will discuss
feminism from liberal perspective because it contains issues relating to
women’s suffering. Despite this, they remain strong, assertive and
doubtful in their relationship with the other sex. Also, liberal
feminism expresses predicament of the women folk and their suffering
without retaliating but believes in endurance and perseverance.
1.6 BIOGRAPHY OF BUCHI EMECHETA
Buchi
Emecheta was born on August 14, 1944 in Lagos to Igbo parents, Alice
Emecheta and Jeremy Nwabudinke. Her father was a railway worker in the
1940’s. due to the gender bias of the time, the young Buchi Emecheta was
initially kept at home while her younger brother was sent to school,
but after persuading her parents to consider the benefits of her
education, she spent her early childhood at an All-Girl’s Missionary
School. Her father died when she was nine years old.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study undertakes a comparative analysis of the works of two Nigerian female novelists: Buchi Emecheta and Flora Nwapa, it looks at the contemporary African society which is dominated by men.Little or no recognition is given to women thus they have been oppressed, depressed, subjected and neglected. In this regards African female writers like Buchi Emecheta, Flora Nwapa, Ama Ata Aidoo, Mariama Ba, Zaynab Alkali among others fought on behalf of African women through their works by giving them ... Continue reading---
