Synopsis
The titles in the "Textplus" series, designed to reflect the changing nature of English Literature at advanced post-GCSE level, offer the complete text with a specially commissioned introduction and compact background notes placing the work in historical and critical context. Together, these components are intended to open up the text for students, allowing them to plot their own course of study, to plan extended projects, to compare writers' perspectives on similar themes and to relate works to key social and historical phenomena.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
- Classic novel on African immigration. Analysed in books by feminist scholars such as Donna Harraway
'Second Class Citizen pales a lot of academic feminist writing into insignificance. - The Guardian
'Emecheta's prose has a shimmer of originality, of English being reinvented... Issues of survival lie inherent in her material and give her tales weight.' - John Updike
Biographie de l'auteur
Born of Ibo parents in Nigeria, Buchi Emecheta is widely known for her multilayered stories of black women struggling to maintain their identity and construct viable lives for themselves and their families. She writes, according to The New York Times, with 'subtlety, power, and abundant compassion.' Her numerous novels include The Slave Girl, The Family, Bride Price, and The Joys of Motherhood.
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