Bibliography of Feminist Criticism
in French and English of African Literatures
By Sharon Verba
From Achebe to Ekwensi
Boehmer, Elleke. "Of Goddesses and Stories: Gender and a New Politics in Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah." Chinua Achebe: A Celebration. Ed. Kirstin Holst Peterson and Anna Rutherford. Oxford: Heinemann, 1990. 102-12.
Cobham, Rhonda. "Making Men and History: Achebe and the Politics of Revisionism." Approaches to Teaching Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Ed. by Bernth Lindfors. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1991. 91-100.
---- "Problems of Gender and History in the Teaching of Things Fall Apart." Matatu:Journal for African Culture and Society. 7 (1990): 25-39.
Davies, Carole Boyce. "Motherhood in the Works of Male and Female Igbo Writers: Achebe, Emecheta, Nwapa, and Nzekwu." Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed: Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1986. 241-56.
Jeyifo, Biodun. "Okonkwo and His Mother: Things Fall Apart and Issues of Gender in the Constitution of African Post-Colonial Discourse." Callaloo. 16.4 (1993): 847-58.
Kolawole, Mary Ebun Modupe. "The Omnipresent Past and the Quest for Self-Retrieval in the African Novel." Aspects of Commonwealth Literature. Vol 1. London: Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 1990. 122-26.
Treiber, Jeanette. The Construction of Identity and Representation of Gender in Four African Novels. Diss. University of California, Davis, 1992. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1992. DA9232867.
Interviews:
Adiaffi, Jean-Marie. "Entretien avec Jean-Marie Adiaffi." Nouvelles du Sud. 1 (1985): 103-108.
Allan, Tuzyline. "Afterword." Changes: A Love Story. New York: Feminist Press at CUNY, 1993.
Berrian, Brenda F. "African Women as Seen in the Works of Flora Nwapa and Ama Ata Aidoo." College Language Association Journal. 25.3 (1982): 331-39.
Booth, James. "Sexual Politics in the Fiction of Ama Ata Aidoo." Commonwealth Essays and Studies. 15.2 (1993): 80-96.
Chapman, Karen C. "Introduction to Ama Ata Aidoo's Dilemma of a Ghost." Sturdy Black Bridges. Ed. Roseann P. Bell, Bettye J. Parker and Beverly Guy-Sheftall. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1979.
Chetin, Sara. "Reading From a Distance: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy." Black Women's Writing. Ed. Gina Wisker. New York: St. Martin's, 1993. 146-159.
Elder, Arlene. "Ama Ata Aidoo and the Oral Tradition: A Paradox of Form and Substance." African Literature Today. 15 (1987): 109-18.
Ekpong, Monique O. "Feminist Tendencies in West African Drama: An Analysis of Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa." Current Trends in Literature and Language Studies in West Africa. Ed. Ernest N. Emenyonu and Charles E. Nnolim. Ibadan: Kraft Books Limited, 1994. 20-33.
Hill-Lubin, Mildred A. "'Tell Me, Nana'--The Image of the Grandmother in the Works of Ama Ata Aidoo." Sage. 5 (Summer 1988): 37-42.
Innes, C.L. "Conspicuous Consumption: Corruption and the Body Politic in the Writing of Ayi Kwei Armah and Ama Ata Aidoo." Essays on African Writing 2: Contemporary Literature. Ed. Abdulrazak Gurnah. Oxford: Heinemann, 1995. 1-18.
Katrak, Ketu H. (Afterword). No Sweetness Here and Other Stories. By Ama Ata Aidoo. New York: Feminist Press, 1995.
Nwankwo, Chimalum. "The Feminist Impulse and Social Realism in Ama Ata Aidoo's No Sweetness Here and Our Sister Killjoy." Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed. Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1986. 151-159.
Owusu, Kofi. "Canons Under Siege: Blackness, Femaleness, and Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy." Callaloo. 13.2 (1990): 341-363.
Phillips, Maggie. "Engaging Dreams: Alternative Perspectives on Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Bessie Head, and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Writing." Research in African Literatures. 25.4 (1994): 89-103.
Interviews:
Aidoo, Ama Ata. "Remembering Tomorrow: A Conversation with Ama Ata Aidoo." Interview by Sarah Modebe. African Woman. 5 (Autumn 1991): 31-33.
"We Were Feminists in Africa First." Interview by Maja-Pearce, Adewale. Index on Censorship. 19.9 (1990): 17-18.
Koroye, Seiyifa. "The Ascetic Feminist Vision of Zainab Alkali." Nigerian Female Writers: A Critical Perspective. Ed. Henrietta C. Otokunefor and Obiageli C. Nwodo. Lagos: Malthouse, 1989. 47-51.
Banyiwa-Horne, Naana. "African Womanhood: The Contrasting Perspectives of Flora Nwapa's Efuru and Elechi Amadi's The Concubine." Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed. Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World, 1986. 119-29.
Abety, Peter. "Women Activists in Ayi Kwei Armah's Two Thousand Seasons and Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood: A Study of the Role of Women in the Liberation Struggle." Bridges: An African Journal of English Studies. 4 (1992): 19-33.
Chetin, Sara. "Armah's Women." Kunapipi. 6.3 (1984): 47-56.
Busia, Abena P.A.. "Parasites and Prophets: The Use of Women in Ayi Kwei Armah's Novels." Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed. Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1986. 89-113.
Djangone-Bi, Djessan Phillippe. "L'Image de la femme et la metaphore du desenchantment dan The Beautyful (sic) Ones Are Not Yet Born de Ayi Kwei Armah." Bridges: An African Journal of English Studies. 6 (1995): 43-57.
Evans, Jenny. "Women of 'The Way': Two Thousand Seasons, Female Images and Black Identity." ACLALS Bulletin. 6.1 (1982): 17-26.
Frederiksen, Bodil Folke. "'The Loved Ones': Racial and Sexual Relations in Ayi Kwei Armah's Why Are We So Blest." Kunapipi. 9.2 (1987): 40-49.
Innes, C.L. "Conspicuous Consumption: Corruption and the Body Politic in the Writing of Ayi Kwei Armah and Ama Ata Aidoo." Essays on African Writing 2: Contemporary Literature. Ed. Abdulrazak Gurnah. Oxford: Heinemann, 1995. 1-18.
Ola, Virginia U. "The Feminine Principle and the Search for Wholeness in The Healers." Sage 5.1 (1988): 29-33.
Wright, Derek. "Requiems for Revolutions: Race-Sex Archetypes in Two African Novels." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies. 35.1 (1989): 55-68.
d'Almeida, Irene Assiba. "The Concept of Choice in Mariama Ba's Fiction." Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed. Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1986. 161-171.
Cham, Mbye B. "Contemporary Society and the Female Imagination: A Study of the Novels of Mariama Ba." African Literature Today. 15 (1987): 89-101.
---- "The Female Condition in Africa: A Literary Exploration by Mariama Ba." Current Bibliography on African Affairs. 17.1 (1984-85): 29-51.
Edson, Laurie. "Mariama Ba and the Politics of the Family." Studies in Twentieth Century Literature. 17.1 (1993): 13-25.
Esonwanne, Uzo. "Enlightenment Epistomology and 'Aesthetic Cognition:' Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter." The Politics of (M)othering: Identity and Resistance in African Literature. Ed. Obioma Nnaemeka. New York: Routledge, 1997. 82-100.
Ezeigbo, Theodora Akachi. "Women's Empowerment and National Integration: Ba's So Long a Letter and Warner-Vierya's Juletane." Current Trends in Literature and Language Studies in West Africa. Ed. Ernest N. Emenyonu and Charles E. Nnolim. Ibadan: Kraft Books Limited, 1994. 7-19.
Fandio, Pierre. "Mariama Ba et Angele Rawiri: Une Autre Verite de la femme." Dalhousie French Studies. 30 (Spring 1995): 171-78.
Flewellen, Elinor C.. "Assertiveness vs. Submissiveness in Selected Works by African Women Writers." Ba Shiru. 12.2 (1985): 3-18.
Grimes, Dorothy. "Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter and Alice Walker's In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: A Senegalese and and African American Perspective on 'Womanism'." Global Perspectives on Teaching Literature: Shared Visions and Distinctive Visions. Ed.: Sandra Ward Lott and Maureen Hawkins. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1993. 65-76.
Jaccard, Anny Claire. "Les Visages de l'Islam chez Mariama Ba et Aminata Sow Fall." Nouvelles du Sud. 6 (1986-1987): 171-82.
Jackson, Kathy Dunn. "The Epistolary Text: A Voice of Affirmation and Liberation in So Long a Letter and The Color Purple." The Griot. 12.2 (1993): 13-20.
Jagne, Siga Fatima. "African Women and the Category 'Woman': Through the Works of Mariama Ba and Bessie Head." Diss. State University of New York, Binghamton, 1994. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1995. DA9513805.
Ka, Aminata Maiga. "Ramatoulaye, Aissatou, Mireille, et ...Mariama Ba." Notre Librairie. 81 (1985): 129-34.
Kemp, Yakini. "Romantic Love and the Individual in Novels By Mariama Ba, Buchi Emecheta, and Bessie Head." Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review. 3.3 (1988): 1-16.
King, Adele. "The Personal and the Political in the Work of Mariama Ba." Studies in Twentieth Century Literature. 18.2 (1994): 177-88.
Makward, Edris. "Marriage, Tradition and Woman's Pursuit of Happiness in the Novels of Mariama Ba." Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed: Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World, 1986. 241-56.
McNee, Lisa. Selfish Gifts: Sengalese Women's Autobiographical Discourses. Diss. Indiana University, Bloomington, 1996.
Mortimer, Mildred. Journeys Through the French African Novel. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1990.
Nnaemeka, Obioma. "Mariama Ba: Parallels, Convergence and Interior Space." Feminist Issues. 10.1 (1990): 13-35.
Ojo-Ade, Femi. "Still a Victim? Mariama Ba's Une si longue lettre." African Literature Today. 12 (1982): 71-87.
Sarvan, Charles Ponnuthurai. "Feminism and African Fiction: The Novels of Mariama Ba." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies. 34.3 (1988): 453-64.
Stringer, Susan. "Cultural Conflict in the Novels of Two African Writers, Mariama Ba and Aminata Sow Fall." Sage. Supplement (1988): 36-41.
Treiber, Jeanette. The Construction of Identity and Representation of Gender in Four African Novels. Diss. University of California, Davis, 1992. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1992. DA9232867.
Wills, Dorothy Davis. "Economic Violence in Postcolonial Senegal: Noisy Silence in Novels by Mariama Ba and Aminata Sow Fall." Violence, Silence and Anger: Women's Writing as Transgression. Ed. by Deirdre Lashgari. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995.
Interviews:
Ba, Mariama. "Mariama Ba, Winner of the First Noma Award for Publishing in Africa." Interview by Barbara Harrell-Bond. African Publishing Record. 6 (1980): 209-14.
Hammond, Thomas N.. "Bebey's Courageous Market Women." CLA Journal. 27.3 (1984): 332-42.
Briere, Eloise A. "Problematique de la parole: Le cas des Camerounaises." L'Esprit Createur. 33.2 (1993); 95-106.
Chemain-Degrange, Arlette. "L'ecriture de Calixthe Beyala: Procreation ou revolte genereuse." Notre Librarie. 99 (1989): 162-63.
Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi. "Calixthe Beyala's 'Femme-Fillette:' Womanhood and the Politics of (M)Othering." The Politics of (M)othering: Identity and Resistance in African Literature. Ed. Obioma Nnaemeka. New York: Routledge, 1997. 101-13.
Niandou, Aissata Madize. Marginalized Feminist Discourses: The Black Woman's Voice in Selected Works by Calixthe Beyala, Simone Schwarz-Bart, and Toni Morrison. Diss. Penn. State U, 1994. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1994. AAC 9428170.
King, Adele. "Calixthe Beyala et le roman feministe africain; Melanges offerts a Jacqueline Leiner." Carrefour de Cultures. Ed. Regis Antoine. Tubingen: Gunter Narr, 1993. 101-07.
Interviews:
Beyala, Calixthe. "Un nouveau roman de Calixthe Beyala." Interview by Assiatou Bah Diallo. Amina. 223 (1988): 85.
Jolly, Rosemary Jane. Colonization, Violation, and Narration in White South Africa Writing. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1995.
Jolly, Rosemary Jane. Colonization, Violation, and Narration in White South Africa Writing. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1995.
Spleth, Janice. "Sexualite et Discours politique dans le roman zairois: L'example de Cannibale, par Bolya Buenga." Matatu. 13/14 (1995): 291-302.
McNee, Lisa. Selfish Gifts: Sengalese Women's Autobiographical Discourses. Diss. Indiana University, Bloomington, 1996.
Mudimbe-Boye, Elisabeth. "The Poetics of Exile and Errancy in Le Baobab fou by Ken Bugul and Ti Jean L'Horizon by Simone Schwarz-Bart." Yale French Studies 83 (1993): 196-212.
Lang, George. "Jihad, Ijtihad, and Other Dialogical Wars in La Mere du Printemps, Le Harem politique, and Loin de Medine." The Marabout and the Muse: New Approaches to Islam in African Literature. Ed. Kenneth W. Harrow. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1996. 1-22.
Merini, Rafika. "Women in a Man's Exploration of His Country, His World; Chraibi's Succession Ouverte." Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed. Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1986. 45-61.
Interviews:
Chraibi, Driss. "Interview de Driss Chraibi." Interview by Lionel Dubois. Revue Celfan/ Celfan Review. 5.2 (1986): 20-26.
Dodd, Josephine. "The South African Literary Establishment and the Textual Production of 'Woman': J.M. Coetzee and Lewis Nkosi." Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 2, 1990. Rpt. in South African Feminisms:Writing, Theory and Criticism. Ed. M.J. Daymond. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. 327-340.
Gaye, M. I. Ndiaye, and M. Kandji. "Ideology, Gender and the Discourse of Sexuality in J.M. Coetzee's Foe." Bridges: An African Journal of English Studies. 6 (1995): 129-43.
Jolly, Rosemary Jane. Colonization, Violation, and Narration in White South Africa Writing. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1995.
Roberts, Sheila. "Cinderella's Mothers: J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country." English in Africa. 19.1 (1992): 21-33.
Rody, Caroline. "The Mad Colonial Daughter's Revolt: J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country." South Atlantic Quarterly. 93.1 (1994): 157-80.
Samantrai, Ranu. "The Erotic of Imperialism: V.S. Naipaul, J. M. Coetzee, Lewis Nkosi." Diss. University of Michigan, 1991. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1991. DA9116292.
Treiber, Jeanette. The Construction of Identity and Representation of Gender in Four African Novels. Diss. University of California, Davis, 1992. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1992. DA9232867.
Bahri, Deepika. "Disembodying the Corpus: Postcolonial Pathology in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions." Postmodern Culture: An Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Criticism. 5.1 (1994).
Bosman, Brenda. "A Correspondance Without Theory: Tsitsi Dangaremga's Nervous Conditions." Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 2 .1990. Rpt. in South African Feminisms: Writing, Theory and Criticism. Ed. M.J. Daymond. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. 301-311.
Creamer, Heidi. "An Apple For the Teacher? Femininity, Coloniality, and Food in Nervous Conditions." Kunapipi. 16.1 (1994): 349-60.
Flockemann, Miki. "'Not-Quite Insiders and Not-Quite Outsiders': The 'Process of Womanhood' in Becka Lamb, Nervous Conditions and Daughters of the Twilight." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 27.1 (1992): 37-47.
McWilliams, Sally. "Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions: At the Crossroads of Feminism and Post-Colonialism." World Literature Written in English. 31.1 (1991): 103-12.
Moyana, R. "Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions: An Attempt in the Feminist Tradition." Zambezia. 21.1 (1994): 23-42.
Peterson, Kirstin Holst. "Between Gender, Race and History: Kirstin Holst Peterson Interviews Tsitsi Dangarembga." Kunapipi. 16.1 (1994): 345-48.
Phillips, Maggi. "Engaging Dreams: Alternative Perspectives on Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Bessie Head, and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Writing." Research in African Literatures. 25.4 (1994): 89-103.
Rooney, Caroline. "Re-Possessions: Inheritance and Independence in Chenjerai Hove's Bones and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions." Essays on African Writing 2: Contemporary Literature. Ed. Abdulrazak Gurnah. Oxford: Heinemann, 1995. 119-143.
Sugnet, Charles. "Nervous Conditions: Dangarembga's Feminist Re-Invention of Fanon." The Politics of (M)othering: Identity and Resistance in African Literature. Ed. Obioma Nnaemeka. New York: Routledge, 1997. 33-49.
Thomas, Sue. "Killing the Hysteric in the Colonized's House: Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 27.1 (1992): 26-36.
Uwakheh, Pauline Ada. "Debunking Patriarchy: The Liberational Quality of Voicing in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions." Research in African Literatures. 26.1 (1995): 75-84.
Vizzard, Michelle. "Of Mimicry and Woman: Hysteria and Anticolonial Feminism in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions." SPAN: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. 36 (1993): 202-10.
Interviews:
Dangarembga, Tsitsi. "Women Write About the Things That Move Them." Interview by Flora Veit-Wild. Matatu. 3.6 (1989): 101-108.
Julien, Eileen. "Avatars of the Feminine in Laye, Senghor and Diop." From Dante to Garcia Marquez: Studies in Romance Literatures and Linguistics. Gene H. Bell-Villada, Antonio Gimenez, and George Pistorius. Williamstown, MA: Williams College, 1987. 336-48.
Donadey, Anne. "Assia Djebar's Poetics of Subversion." L'Esprit Createur. 33.2 (1993): 107-17.
Geesey, Patricia. "Women's Words: Assia Djebar's Loin de Medine." The Marabout and the Muse: New Approaches to Islam in African Literature. Ed. Kenneth W. Harrow. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1996. 40-50.
Jack, Belinda. "Strategies of Transgression in the Writings of Assia Djebar." Essays on African Writing 2: Contemporary Literature. Ed. Abdulrazak Gurnah. Oxford: Heinemann, 1995. 19-31.
Lang, George. "Jihad, Ijtihad, and Other Dialogical Wars in La Mere du Printemps, Le Harem politique, and Loin de Medine." The Marabout and the Muse: New Approaches to Islam in African Literature. Ed. Kenneth W. Harrow. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1996. 1-22.
Lee, Sonia. "Daughters of Hagar: Daughters of Muhammad." The Marabout and the Muse: New Approaches to Islam in African Literature. Ed. Kenneth W. Harrow. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1996. 51-61.
Mortimer, Mildred P. "The Evolution of Assia Djebar's Feminist Conscience." Contemporary African Literature. Ed. Hal Wylie, Eileen Julien and Russell J. Linnemann. Washington, DC: Three Continents, 1983. 7-14.
---- Journeys Through the French African Novel. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1990.
Page, Andrea. "Rape or Obscene Copulation? Ambivalence and Complicity in Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia." Women in French Studies. 2 (Fall 1994): 42-54.
Turk, Nadia. "Assia Djebar: Voix au feminin." Constructions. (1988-1989): 89-98.
Zimra, Clarisse. "Afterword." Women of Algiers in Their Apartment. By Assia Djebar. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992. 159-211.
---- "Writing Women: The Novels of Assia Djebar." Substance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism. 21.3 (1992): 68-84.
Flockemann, Miki. "'Not-Quite Insiders and Not-Quite Outsiders': The 'Process of Womanhood' in Becka Lamb, Nervous Conditions and Daughters of the Twilight." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 27.1 (1992): 37-47.
Allan, Tuzyline. Feminist and Womanist Aesthetics: A Comparative Study. Diss. State U of New York, Stony Brook, 1991. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI 1991. 9106816.
Andrade, Susan Z. "Rewriting History, Motherhood, and Rebellion: Naming an African Woman's Literary Tradition." Research in African Literatures 21.1 (1990): 91-110.
Bazin, Nancy Topping. "Feminist Perspectives in African Fiction: Bessie Head and Buchi Emecheta." Black Scholar. 17.2 (1986): 34-40.
---- "Venturing into Feminist Consciousness: Bessie Head and Buchi Emecheta." The Tragic Life: Bessie Head and Literature in Southern Africa. Ed. Cecil Abrahams. Trenton: Africa World Press, 1990. 45-58.
---- "Weight of Custom, Signs of Change: Feminism in the Literature of African Women." World Literature Written in English. 25.2 (1985): 183-97.
Birch, Eva Lennox. "Autobiography: The Art of Self-Definition." Black Women's Writing. Ed. Gina Wisker. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. 127-45.
Brodzki, Bella. " 'Changing Masters': Gender, Genre and the Discourse of Slavery." Borderwork: Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature. Ed. Margaret R. Higonnet. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994. 42-60.
Daymond, M.J. "Buchi Emecheta, Laughter and Silence: Changes in the Concept of 'Woman' and 'Mother'." Journal of Literary Studies. 4.1 (1988): 64-73.
Davies, Carole Boyce. "Motherhood in the Works of Male and Female Igbo Writers: Achebe, Emecheta, Nwapa, and Nzekwu." Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed: Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1986. 241-56.
Ezenwa-Ohaeto. "Replacing Myth with Myth: The Feminist Streak in Buchi Emecheta's Double Yoke." Critical Theory and African Literature. Ed. by Ernest N. Emenyonu, R. Vanamali, E. Oko, and A. Iloeje. Ibadan: Heinemann, 1987. 214-24.
Flewellen, Elinor C.. "Assertiveness vs. Submissiveness in Selected Works by African Women Writers." Ba Shiru. 12.2 (1985): 3-18.
Katrak, Ketu, H. "Womanhood/Motherhood: Variations on a Theme in Selected Novels of Buchi Emecheta." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 22.1 (1987): 159-70.
Kandji, Diouf. "Des calvaires de la femme africaine dans la creation romanesque de Buchi Emecheta, Flora Nwapa, Ngugi Wa Thiongo et Ahmadou Kourouma." Bridges: An African Journal of English Studies/Revue Africaine d'Etudes. 4 (December 1992): 113-33.
Kanwar, Asha. "The Joys of Motherhood or the Sorrows of Otherhood." Africa Quarterly. 34.3 (1994): 54-63.
Kemp, Yakini. "Romantic Love and the Individual in Novels By Mariama Ba, Buchi Emecheta, and Bessie Head." Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review. 3.3 (1988): 1-16.
Ogunyemi, Chikwenye Okonjo. "Buchi Emecheta: The Shaping of a Self." Komparatische Hefte. 8 (1983): 65-77.
Ojo-Ade, Femi. "Women and the Nigerian Civil War: Buchi Emecheta and Flora Nwapa." Etudes Germano Africaines. 6 (1988): 75-86.
Oku, Julia Inyang Essien. "Courtesans and Earthmothers: A Feminist Reading of Cyprian Ekwensi's Jagua Nana's Daughter and Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood." Critical Theory and African Literature. Ed. by Ernest N. Emenyonu, R. Vanamali, E. Oko, and A. Iloeje. Ibadan: Heinemann, 1987. 225-33.
Onwuhara, Kate C. "The Tension of Two Cultures: Ambivalence in Buchi Emecheta's Feminism." Critical Theory and African Literature. Ed. by Ernest N. Emenyonu, R. Vanamali, E. Oko, and A. Iloeje. Ibadan: Heinemann, 1987. 207-13.
Osa, Osayimwense. "Buchi Emecheta's Feminism." Literary Half-Yearly. 31.1 (1990): 49-54.
Phillips, Maggi. "Engaging Dreams: Alternative Perspectives on Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Bessie Head, and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Writing." Research in African Literatures. 25.4 (1994): 89-103.
Porter, Abioseh Michael. "Second Class Citizen: The Point of Departure for Understanding Buchi Emecheta's Major Fiction." International Fiction Review. 15.2 (1988): 123-29.
Sample, Maxine J. Cornish. The Representation of Space in Selected Works by Bessie Head, Buchi Emecheta, and Flora Nwapa. Diss. Emory University, 1990. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1990. AAC 9027938.
Sinha, Chandrani. "Women in Protest Literature: A Study of Four Novels of Buchi Emecheta." Africa Quarterly. 34.3 (1994): 221-34.
Sougou, Omar. "The Experience of an African Woman in Britain: A Reading of Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen." Crisis and Creativity in the New Literatures in English: Cross/Cultures. Ed. Geoffrey V. Davis and Jelinek Hena Maes. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1990. 511-22.
St. Peter, Christine. "Changing Worlds: The Nigerian Novels of Buchi Emecheta." Atlantis. 11 (Fall 1985): 139-46.
Umeh, Marie Linton. "Reintegration with the Lost Self: A Study of Buchi Emecheta's Double Yoke. Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed: Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1986. 173-180.
Anyaegbunam, Ngozi. "Feminist Tendency in Ekwensi's Jagua Nana's Daughter. The Essential Ekwensi: A Literary Celebration of Cyprian Ekwensi's Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Ibadan: Heinemann, 1987.
Oku, Julia Inyang Essien. "Courtesans and Earthmothers: A Feminist Reading of Cyprian Ekwensi's Jagua Nana's Daughter and Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood." Critical Theory and African Literature. Ed. by Ernest N. Emenyonu, R. Vanamali, E. Oko, and A. Iloeje. Ibadan: Heinemann, 1987. 225-33.