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Title: Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta ISBN: 0-8076-0950-1 Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic......Read the last chapter with eyes full of tears
Comment: An indept exposure to the challenges faced by an uneducated african woman determined to survive in colonial Nigeria. A story of a woman who went through the trials of life, first as the apple of her fathers eyes and the most sort after bride. Only to be barren and looses her husband to another woman. To hide her shame, she is married off to a man she has never met in the colonial city of Lagos (Nigeria). Read this book and see how she faces the challenges of living in a strange land and trying to abide by two different cultures. The one she was brought up in, groomed as a true African woman and the one she is forced to live in as an adultrated african, spieced with the inferior ingredients of the colonial masters.. You just might be forced to compare her with your mother. Read this book and understand the true meaning of the word MOTHER.
Rating: 4
Summary: Impressive Affecting Story - Good Thought Provoking Read
Comment: This is a well-told story of a beloved girl child from a traditional Nigerian village family in the early to mid twentieth century who grows to womanhood. It chronicles the twists and turns her life takes when she is married and fails to conceive. She is judged to be the thing that is only spoken of in whispers -- barren. The protagonist, Nnu Ego, is first revealed as a simple woman who wants to fulfill the traditional role of wife and mother. Her first husband judges her unworthy in her barrenness and returns her to her family in disgrace. She is then married off to an older man who works as a domestic worker in the city. She is at least a wife, if not a mother. Lo and behold, she is not barren and conceives children for this man, while she, not he, must work to support them because of his inadequate income, without the traditional supports for her position that could be found in village life. Like many third world women, she finds that she has all of the myriad responsibilities of wife and motherhood, with little of the rights and honors that would normally be bestowed on her as the chief or first wife. Her problems are manifold; she and her children almost die of starvation when her husband goes away to fight in the European war. He marries another wife on a seeming whim as is his right. They are all housed in one room in the servant's quarters. The second wife must also scrape to survive and her and Nnu Ego are ever locked in a battle of wills while at the same time trying to maintain their dignity and feed and educate their children even though they are illiterates themselves. The only way she can raise her children is to sacrifice her health, pride, and in the end, her life. One of the recurring themes of Ms. Emecheta's works is the encroachment of European society which negtively overlays the traditional partiarchal African culture and thus makes women in Nnu Ego's position especially vulnerable to misuse and ignominy. All of Nnu Ego's choices are painful, et she accomplishes the seemingly impossible task of singlehandedly bestowing a decent life on her 8 children that survive to adulthood. There is no place and no impetus, in this new and entangled euro-africo culture, to honor or mourn Nnu Ego, nor is it imagined by members of society that it is right and necessary to recognize that it is her love and dedication to her family that enables her to accomplish the extraordinary and that without her and the countless women like her, the family, the culture, and the society would have fallen completely. Nnu Ego wanted love from those to whom she had given all like women everywhere. Ms. Emecheta makes you wish, hope, hold your breath, and cry with her as you follow her on her fateful journey. This book transforms you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very illuminating
Comment: An easy to read story that provides a realistic and convincing background on both the high value Africans place on children as well as the high costs of motherhood on women. Very illuminating
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