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Efuru

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Author : Flora Nwapa
language : en
Publisher: Waveland Press
Release Date : 2013-10-21

Efuru written by Flora Nwapa and has been published by Waveland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-21 with Fiction categories.

Appearing in 1966, Efuru was the first internationally published book, in English, by a Nigerian woman. Flora Nwapa (1931–1993) sets her story in a small village in colonial West Africa as she describes the youth, marriage, motherhood, and eventual personal epiphany of a young woman in rural Nigeria. The respected and beautiful protagonist, an independent-minded Ibo woman named Efuru, wishes to be a mother. Her eventual tragedy is that she is not able to marry or raise children successfully. Alone and childless, Efuru realizes she surely must have a higher calling and goes to the lake goddess of her tribe, Uhamiri, to discover the path she must follow. The work, a rich exploration of Nigerian village life and values, offers a realistic picture of gender issues in a patriarchal society as well as the struggles of a nation exploited by colonialism.

Discussion About Efuru By Flora Nwapa

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Author : Mumtaz Mazumdar
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2011-09

Discussion About Efuru By Flora Nwapa written by Mumtaz Mazumdar and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Literature - Africa, Assam University, course: MA, language: English, abstract: The novel Efuru is written by Flora Nwapa. Nwapa is the first Nigerian and Igbo woman who to write a novel upon the Igbo female. The Igbos are one of the three major tribes of Nigeria, inhabiting Anambra, Imo and Edo states. There have been prominent male novelists who were Igbos and wrote in English. But, the male writers rarely included the females. Nwapa, atlast breaks the silence. She arose in response to consolidation of male authorship. She adds to the beginning of the new knowledge upon Igbo women with Efuru. Key words: Efuru, Igbo, female,

Notes On Flora Nwapa S Efuru

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Author : Anna Githaiga
language : en
Publisher: East African Publishers
Release Date : 1979

Notes On Flora Nwapa S Efuru written by Anna Githaiga and has been published by East African Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with categories.

Efuru

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Author : Flora Nwapa
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-11-01

Efuru written by Flora Nwapa and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-01 with Fiction categories.

Pioneering author Flora Nwapa paints the stirring tale of a young wife attempting to carve out her own independence against the traditional beliefs of Igbo society. Ever since she was young, Efuru has been famed for her beauty, intelligence, and noble lineage. So her family is appalled when they uncover her betrothal to an unremarkable villager. Although generous in her devotion to him, Efuru soon begins to realise that love is weak in comparison to centuries of superstition and tradition. Her only reprieve is in the strange, vivid dream that visits her at night – one of an ethereal woman sitting at the bottom of a lake, entrancing Efuru with her beauty and lavish piles of riches. When a village sage reveals to Efuru that she has been chosen as a worshipper for the powerful lake goddess, Uhamiri, it seems she can finally find meaning in something beyond her marriage. Yet, even under the attention of the divine, Efuru will struggle to overcome the pressures of a community that values her womb beyond all else. From pregnancy to prophesy, female circumcision to the complications of polygamy, Efuru voyages to the core of the female experience in post-independent Nigeria. Flora Nwapa writes with the clear and impactful depth that has made Efuru an instant literary classic. 'If Chinua Achebe and Flora Nwapa [had] not written the books they did, when they did, and how they did, I would perhaps not have had the emotional courage to write.' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Efuru

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Author : Flora Nwapa
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann
Release Date : 1966

Efuru written by Flora Nwapa and has been published by Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Africa categories.

After two unsuccessful marriages and the death of her only child, Efuru becomes a woman to suspect in her small Nigerian village.

The First English Novel From An African Female Efuru By Flora Nwapa

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Author : Mumtaz Mazumdar
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2013-02-20

The First English Novel From An African Female Efuru By Flora Nwapa written by Mumtaz Mazumdar and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-20 with Social Science categories.

Scientific Essay from the year 2013 in the subject African Studies - African diaspora, , language: English, abstract: The novel ‘Efuru’ is written by Flora Nwapa in the year 1966. Nwapa is the first female writer in English in Nigeria. It is Nwapa who opened up opportunities for other women writers of the future. She showed deep understanding with ordinary Igbo women of her indigenous tribe, trapped in local social situations over which they could exert little control. The male writers earlier had not explicitly represented about the female Igbos. If they had ever done so, it was done in very partial manner and andocentric. It was stereotypical representation. The reality of the Igbo women was first presented by Flora Nwapa. Her novel ‘Efuru’ presents the rural Igbo woman. Economic independence of the rural Igbo woman is one of the themes in the novel. The most important institutions of family and marriage are brought in focus. The ‘episteme’ of the male writers available to readers then, concentrated upon the impacts of the political transformations upon people as the themes, due to recent change of power from the British to the Nigerians. It was at that time just after six years of Independence that Nwapa quickly took up the social issues relating to the Igbo women. The social issues combined the marriage, economic and religious aspects of the Igbo woman. Efuru is the protagonist in the novel. She goes through two marriages. But both her marriages end due to her childlessness. Even her immediate society refuses to be kind to her. Stunned Efuru starts taking refuge in the company of one of the Igbo Goddesses or Mami Wata, named Uhamiri. She becomes a selected worshipper of the Mami Wata. The sub-divisions in the article will show how marriage fails to stable Efuru and an ancient religion comes to give some relief to Efuru. Key Words Nwapa; Efuru; Mami Wata; Childlessness; Igbo; Economic; Nigeria

Efuru

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Author : Flora Nwapa
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997

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Flora Nwapa S Efuru In Notes Revision Hints General And Chapter Summaries Character Sketches Sample Questions And Answers

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Author : S.N. Onwudiofu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988

Flora Nwapa S Efuru In Notes Revision Hints General And Chapter Summaries Character Sketches Sample Questions And Answers written by S.N. Onwudiofu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.

Efuru

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Author : Flora Nwapa
language : fr
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
Release Date : 1988

Efuru written by Flora Nwapa and has been published by Editions L'Harmattan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Nigerian fiction (English) categories.

Efuru

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Author : Dokun Oni
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987

Efuru written by Dokun Oni and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with categories.