In the Ditch (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Buchi Emecheta
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: The late 1960’s
- Setting: The slums of northern London
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: 1960’s, Africa or Africans, Mothers, Parents and children, Blacks, Poverty or poor people, Inner cities or inner-city life, Women’s issues, Oppression, Single parents or single-parent families, Lower classes, London, Public housing
- Locales: London, England
Characters Discussed
Adah (AH-duh), the protagonist. A young Nigerian sociology student, she is a mother with middle-class aspirations who is separated from her husband and must rear her five small children, the oldest of whom is eight years old. A talented, qualified young woman, Adah is caught in the machinery of the British welfare state and is inexorably pauperized and humiliated.
The landlord, a mean-spirited and hostile man. Like Adah, he and his wife are Nigerians, but of the Yoruba tribe. A council tenant himself, he illegally sublets a squalid room in his...
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