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First published in 1979, The Joys of Motherhood is the story of Nnu
Ego, a Nigerian woman struggling in a patriarchal society. Unable
to conceive in her first marriage, Nnu is banished to Lagos where
she succeeds in becoming a mother. Then, against the backdrop of
World War II, Nnu must fiercely protect herself and her children
when she is abandoned by her husband and her people. Emecheta
writes with subtlety, power, and abundant compassion (New York
Times)."
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The Joys of Motherhood (Hardcover)
Buchi Emecheta; Introduction by Stephane Robolin
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Part literary history, part cultural study, Grounds of Engagement
examines the relationships and exchanges between black South
African and African American writers who sought to create common
ground throughout the antiapartheid era. Stephane Robolin argues
that the authors' geographic imaginations crucially defined their
individual interactions and, ultimately, the literary traditions on
both sides of the Atlantic. Subject to the tyranny of segregation,
authors such as Richard Wright, Bessie Head, Langston Hughes,
Gwendolyn Brooks, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Michelle Cliff, and
Richard Rive charted their racialized landscapes and invented freer
alternative geographies. They crafted rich representations of place
to challenge the stark social and spatial arrangements that framed
their lives. Those representations, Robolin contends, also
articulated their desires for black transnational belonging and
political solidarity. The first book to examine U.S. and South
African literary exchanges in spatial terms, Grounds of Engagement
identifies key moments in the understudied history of black
cross-cultural exchange and exposes how geography serves as an
indispensable means of shaping and reshaping modern racial meaning.
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