Gender and Sexuality in Second Class Citizen by Emecheta Buchi

In the book "Second Citizens", Emecheta Buchi uses gender and sexuality to express society's various ways to deal with women and obstacles they have to overcome. Buchi uses this book and many of the issues discussed in this book as tools for sexuality and sexuality as a social structure debate; however, the world approach and social prospects are not related to women ' I have not seen a way to be treated at that time. Ada, the hero of this book, is a child who wants to receive Western education, but even if she is a family boy, she is a fact of a girl and it is a privilege of a school, so she has the opportunity to obtain a child It is deprived. one

Buchi Emecheta was born in Lagos, Nigeria on July 21, 1944. She moved to the UK in 1960 and started working as a librarian. In 1970 she studied at the University of London and got a degree. Sociology During the period started in 1970, Emecheta worked as a community worker in North London. Like her earlier feminist writer, her work mainly focuses on politics of race, gender, and gender, based on her personal experience. Her first novel "In the Ditch" was published in 1972 and published in "New Politician" magazine. This novel, along with her second novel, Second-class Citizen, provides a prospect of the living of poor Nigerian women. And it is trying to integrate into one of the biggest cities in Europe (Biography: Buchi Emecheta, 2015)

Buchi Emecheta's novel "Second Citizen" highlights the experience Adah talked about as a desire and desire as a Nigerian woman, and about the minority of blacks in London. It follows the protagonist Ada through her confusion, difficulties, disappointments and accomplishments she is faced in her life. The story is described in the form of a third party with a traditional linear structure. Ada doubts the social value, norms and expectations of one's identity. Ada is facing expectations for prejudice, race, sex. She is forced to comply with and observe cultural values ​​and social norms as a black woman and is always positioned as a "second class citizen" and "No one wants to record her birth.

Buchi Emecheta OBE (1944 - 2017) is a British - based Nigerian novelist who publishes over 20 books including second - class citizen (1974), bridal price (1976), slave girl (1977) I will. ) And mother's pleasure. (1979). Slavery, childbirth, her child's freedom, female self-reliance and freedom by education have won great acclaim and honor including the British Empire Medal Elleke Boehmer (see Cullhed, 2006: 79). The same patriarchal support single - identity, growth model, birth, and all blood ... will promote the form of consciousness of a particular singles or "one eye". The problem is the diversity of the literary system. Gerrit Olivier pointed out, "It is not uncommon to hear scholars and politicians talk about" South African literature ", but the basic condition also features diversity and even division."