The Slave Girl: A Novel

Buchi Emecheta

Allison and Busby, 1977 - English fiction - 179 pages

"Her graphically detailed pictures of tribal life make the novel memorable."-Chicago Tribune

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User Review  - froxgirl - LibraryThing

Happily, many new African writers have recently gained acclaim in the US, and Buchi Emecheta is a pioneer from an earlier generation. She was born in Kenya during WW II, moved to London, and writes ...

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User Review  - KamGeb - LibraryThing

The story is about an orphaned girl in a small village in Nigeria who is sold into slavery by her brother. A rich, distant relative buys the girl and raises her. It is an interesting view of how women ...

Contents

• Prologue: 9
• The Slave Girl: 13
• Felenza: 22

About the author

Native Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta was born in 1944 near Lagos. She emigrated to London in 1960 where she pursued a career as a social worker and subsisted in the profession for several years. She began to write to fulfill her growing need to express herself artistically and to support her family financially. Her first two novels centered on life in London as a member of the working class. But her true strength as a novelist flourished as she explored her roots and focused upon the psychological impact of African women struggling with timeworn issues of male domination, economic exploitation, racism, and colonialism in Twentieth Century Africa. The Joys of Motherhood (1979) is considered by most as her best novel, exploring the life a woman consumed by demands imposed by society upon motherhood. Her novel The Rape of Shavi (1983) concerns the continued exploitation of Africa by European factions. Emecheta continues to live and write in London.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Slave Girl: A Novel
• Author: Buchi Emecheta
• Publisher: Allison and Busby, 1977
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: May 24, 2008
• ISBN: 0850312213, 9780850312218
• Length: 179 pages