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Very Good jacket. New York. 1990. George Braziller. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0807612456. 239 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Rita Pocock. keywords: Africa Nigeria Women World Literature. DESCRIPTION-Buchi Emecheta-long hailed as one of the greatest women writers to come out of Africa-is widely known for her stories of black women struggling with the conflicting demands of tradition and modernity. In her newest novel, Emecheta depicts a family which fails to function as a family should-in part because of the social and economic pressures bearing down on a Jamaican family in England. Gwendolen, the eldest daughter, suffers most from the family's inability to protect or provide for itself. Left behind in Jamaica when her parents emigrate, she lives in poverty with her grandmother and, at age nine, is raped by an ‘uncle. ' By the time she is eleven and joins her family in London, she has been marked by the rape-as well as by poverty and illiteracy-to such a degree that she never entirely becomes a member of the family. Not until she again has been the victim of rape and has left home, does Gwendolen begin to understand that she must take control of her own life. As always in Emecheta's novels, the scope of the story is greater than what happens to one girl or one family. Emecheta shows the breakdown of the Brilliantons to be part of a breaking down of black traditions. In The Family, African and Jamaican blacks are dangerously ignorant of each other's culture-and sometimes of their own. It is telling that Gwendolen's parents give her a name they cannot pronounce, coming from a culture in which personal names are meant to reveal the identity of an individual. In this, her ninth novel with Braziller, Buchi Emecheta has written a painfully engrossing tale of personal bravery in the face of familial disintegration. inventory #14482.
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