The Adah - Upheaval in Buchi Emecheta’s Second –Class Citizen

Dr S C Bamarani

doi:10.24113/ijellh.v9i4.10989

Abstract

Literature and the effects on the society is manifold. It provides aesthetic needs and also reconstructs the beliefs and values in the readers. The paper entitled “The Adah - Upheaval in Buchi Emecheta’s Second – Class Citizen” is an explicit presentation on the spirit of Adah. It also analyses the factors that gather her strength right from an ambitious girl to a strong, successful woman. The Adah-upheaval is the representation of the ever -glowing embers in the heart of every woman. The paper further traces the life of Adah and thereby a framework for comprehending the rise of Adah. It demonstrates the social factors that lay a hindrance and the unique individual character that keep a check to the same.

Highlights

Buchi Emecheta’s Second- Class Citizen establishes a new tradition of written literature, a genre of revelation, from the perspective of an African Woman Writer
The advent of Buchi Emecheta marked a remarkable transition from the white writing on Black to the Black writing from their own traumatic yet revelatory experiences
The novel is a thoughtful, daring description of the tribulations of an Igbo woman emerging from a troublesome childhood to a successful woman writer

Summary

Introduction

Buchi Emecheta’s Second- Class Citizen establishes a new tradition of written literature, a genre of revelation, from the perspective of an African Woman Writer. Adah Obi, the protagonist rises from the struggles and the difficulties define her. Adah’s life passages through separation during childhood to the path of transition after marriage, and reincorporates to an entity as a successful writer.

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