![]() ![]() ![]() Guanya herself states the main theme of the novel, that "women were never destined in this world to be servants sold and treated as slaves, but on the contrary. Their flight makes up the body of the narrative, as they pass from place to place, showing again and again the oppression of women. Guanya rebels, falls in love and runs off with a young man her own age. Guanya, after her father''s death, is promised by her mother to a man twice her age a brutish man with six wives. While at Oberlin, Walters wrote and had published "Guanya Pau," the tragic story of a young Vai woman. There he received his Bachellor''s degree in 1893. ![]() He studied at the Cape Mount Episcopal School, and was sent by its principal to study at Oberlin in 1889. Walters was born in Liberia in the 1860''s. "Guanya Pau" represents not only the first novel in English by an African author it is a plea for equal rights for women published in an era where women had been "unkindly treated-too much flattered, too little respected." (From an epigraph by Sir Arthur Helps on the title-page). Virtually forgotten until 1994, when a scholarly reprint was issued by the University of Nebraska Press. ![]()
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