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Pauline Ada Uwakweh is a Nigerian writer and academic. Writing as Pauline Onwubiko, she published Running for Cover (1988), a children's novel giving a childs-eye view of the Nigerian civil war.[1] She is an Associate Professor of English in the English Department at North Carolina A&T State University.[2] Her specialism is African writing and literature from the African diaspora, particularly women's writing[disambiguation needed].

Life

Pauline Onwubiko was born in Uvuru in Aboh-Mbaise, Imo State.[3] She attended Owerri Girls Secondary School and in 1982 graduated with a BA in literature from the University of Port Harcourt. She gained a master's in English and literary studies from the University of Calabar,[1] and a PhD from Temple University.[2] Before moving to North Carolina A&T, she taught in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati and the Department of English and Literary Studies at the University of Calabar.[4] She was a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow in 2016.[5]

Uwakweh has written literary criticism of a range of writers, including Toni Morrison, Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, Nawal El-Saadawi, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Cyprian Ekwensi, Ama Ata Aidoo, Chimamanda Adichie and Goretti Kyomuhendo. She co-edited and introduced a 2013 collection on immigration and African families.[6] Her own chapter looked at marriage, motherhood and immigration in the writing of Buchi Emecheta and Chimamanda Adichie.[7] In 2017 she edited and introduced a collection on war and African women,[8] in which her own contribution considered Grace Akallo's memoir, Girl Soldier, and Susan Minot's novel Thirty Girls.[9]

Works

  • Running for Cover. Owerri, Imo State: KayBeeCee Publications. Republished by Africa First Publishers, 2010.
  • (ed. with Jerono P. Rotich and Comfort O. Okpala) Engaging the diaspora: migration and African families. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013.
  • (ed.) African Women Under Fire: Literary Discourses in War and Conflict. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017.

References

  1. ^ a b Barbara Fister (1995). "Onwubiko, Pauline". Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 231–2. ISBN 978-0-313-28988-0.
  2. ^ a b Pauline A Uwakweh, North Carolina A&T State University.
  3. ^ Library of Congress Name Authority File. Accessed 18 May 2020.
  4. ^ Pauline Ada Uwakweh; Jerono P. Rotich; Comfort O. Okpala, eds. (2013). Engaging the Diaspora: Migration and African Families. Lexington Books. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-7391-7974-1.
  5. ^ The New Class of Carnegie African Diaspora Fellows, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 17 May 2016.
  6. ^ Pauline Ada Uwakweh (2013). "(Re)Configuring African Migration since the last Forty Years". In Pauline Ada Uwakweh; Jerono P. Rotich; Comfort O. Okpala (eds.). Engaging the Diaspora: Migration and African Families (Lanham ed.). Lexington Books. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-0-7391-7974-1.
  7. ^ Pauline Ada Uwakweh (2013). "Negotiating marriage and motherhood: a critical perspective on the immigration narratives of Buchi Emecheta and Chimamanda Adichie". In Pauline Ada Uwakweh; Jerono P. Rotich; Comfort O. Okpala (eds.). Engaging the Diaspora: Migration and African Families (Lanham ed.). Lexington Books. p. 15–. ISBN 978-0-7391-7974-1.
  8. ^ Pauline Ada Uwakweh (2017). "Female, Victim, Agent: African Women in War and Confilct". In Pauline Ada Uwakweh (ed.). African Women Under Fire: Literary Discourses in War and Conflict. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-1-4985-2919-8.
  9. ^ Pauline Ada Uwakweh (2017). "Memoir versus fiction: narrating trauma in Girl soldier: a story of hope for Northern Uganda's children and Thirty Girls". In Pauline Ada Uwakweh (ed.). African Women Under Fire: Literary Discourses in War and Conflict. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 113–. ISBN 978-1-4985-2919-8.
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